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Wage Structures and Labor Turnover in the U.S. And in Japan
Mincer, Jacob - 2011
proximate reason for the strong degree of worker attachment to the firm in Japan. The greater emphasis on training and …. Using productivity growth indexes for industries in the U.S. and in Japan we test the hypothesis that rapid technical change … to Japan than to the U.S …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012756884
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Productivity, Wages, and Prices Inside and Outside of Manufacturing in the U.S., Japan, and Europe
Gordon, Robert J. - 2021
. Results are presented for the U. S., Japan, and an aggregate called "Europe" consisting of eleven European economies. The … uptrend in previously developed wage gap indexes for Japan and Europe between the 1960s and 1980s. If anything real wages in … Europe and Japan were too flexible rather than too rigid, in the sense that much of the increase in wage gap indexes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244903
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Globalisation of production and markets
Nunnenkamp, Peter; Gundlach, Erich; Agarwal, Jamuna P. - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013263790
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Productivity, Wages, and Prices Inside and Outside of Manufacturing in the U.S., Japan, and Europe
Gordon, Robert J. - 1986
. Results are presented for the U. S., Japan, and an aggregate called "Europe" consisting of eleven European economies. The … uptrend in previously developed wage gap indexes for Japan and Europe between the 1960s and 1980s. If anything real wages in … Europe and Japan were too flexible rather than too rigid, in the sense that much of the increase in wage gap indexes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477000
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Why U.S. Wage and Employment Behavior Differs from That in Britain and Japan
Gordon, Robert J. - 1981
.K. and Japan are between three and 15 times more flexible than in the U.S. during the postwar period. Corresponding to … similar to that in Britain and Japan. The contrast between the prewar data and the postwar data, where the U.S. is a definite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478304
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Temporal Instability of Risk Preference among the Poor : Evidence from Payday Cycles
Akesaka, Mika; Eibich, Peter; Hanaoka, Chie; Shigeoka, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The poor live paycheck to paycheck and are repeatedly exposed to strong cyclical income fluctuations. We investigate whether such income fluctuations affect risk preference among the poor. If risk preference temporarily changes around payday, optimal decisions made before payday may no longer be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533333
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Changes in the Structure of Wages : The U.S. versus Japan
Katz, Lawrence F. - 1989
This paper examines changes in wage differentials by educational attainment and experience in the US. and Japan since … wage premium has increased only slightly in Japan. In contrast to the large expansion in experience differentials for high … and college graduates in Japan from 1979 to 1987. Macroeconomic factors (increased openness, trade deficits, and labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476025
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Wage Structures and Labor Turnover in the U.S. and in Japan
Mincer, Jacob - 1987
proximate reason for the strong degree of worker attachment to the firm in Japan. The greater emphasis on training and …. Using productivity growth indexes for industries in the U.S. and in Japan we test the hypothesis that rapid technical change … to Japan than to the U.S …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476762
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A Comparison of Wage Structures in the United States and Japan : Results from Cell Mean Regressions
Abe, Yukiko - 2001
This paper discusses three issues in estimating wage regressions by using the aggregated data from the Japanese Basic Survey of Wage Structure (BSWS). The issues include: (1) the order of taking averages and logs, (2) the usage of differently aggregated tables in the BSWS, (3) the treatment of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014151172
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Exchange Rate or Wage Changes in International Adjustment? Japan and China Versus the United States
McKinnon, Ronald - 2008
China or Japan, has no predictable effect on its trade surplus. Currency appreciation by the creditor country will slow its …-growth and low-growth economies, as between Japan and the U.S. from in 1950 to 1971 and China and the U.S. from 1994 to 2005 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014062517