-domain techniques can provide. There are three major questions I pursue. The first is why equilibrium search models of labor market … Granger causality test. Finally, the third question I address investigates the connections between labor productivity growth …

The dissertation offers an analysis of the labor reallocation process in Japan and sheds light on its relationship with … statistics of job reallocation rates among relatively large Japanese firms. The main results show that job reallocation follows a … during this period, mainly through exits by relatively productive firms.The second chapter investigates the labor input and …

. The first chapter studies the effects of labor market frictions and credit constraints in an economy with self … stopgap. I show that labor market frictions generate a motive not to transition into self-employment, by making selfemployment … an effect on entrepreneurship if and only if it affects an entrepreneur's capacity to manage workers. When labor market …