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Japanese Capitalism and Modernity in a Global Era : Re-Fabricating Lifetime Employment Relations

Matanle, Peter - 2012

In 'Japanese Capitalism and Modernity in a Global Era,' I argue that Japan's lifetime employment system is not collapsing under the various pressures of globalization and modernization, but that it is developing gradually and that it continues to work well for the salarymen that work within it....

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Men Under Pressure : Representations of the 'Salaryman' and His Organization in Japanese Manga

Matanle, Peter - 2012

In this paper we analyse representations of the Japanese salaryman and Japanese organization in Japanese manga, or graphic novels, during the turbulent decades from the mid-1980s to the present day. We argue that manga presents salarymen protagonists in a sympathetic yet not uncritical light,...

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Forty Years On : Researching the Globalization of the Japanese Firm in the UK

Matanle, Peter - 2014

Forty years have now passed since the economic relationship between Britain and Japan started to deepen beyond arms-length trading ties. This article presents an overview of research on the globalization of the Japanese firm by looking at work produced from the UK standpoint over the last four...

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Empirical Labor Search : A Survey

Eckstein, Zvi; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2021

This paper surveys the existing empirical research that uses search theory to empirically analyze labor supply questions in a structural framework, using data on individual labor market transitions and durations, wages, and individual characteristics. The starting points of the literature are...

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Wages, Training, and Job Turnover in a Search-Matching Model

Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2021

subsequently estimate the model on Danish labour market data using a structural non-parametric estimation procedure. We find that …

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Cyclical Movements in Unemployment and Informality in Developing Countries

Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William F. - 2021

This paper analyzes the cyclical properties of worker flows in Brazil and Mexico, two important developing countries with large unregulated or "informal" sectors. It generates three stylized facts that are critical to the accurate modeling of the sector and which suggest the need to rethink the...

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Matching efficiency and heterogeneous workers in the UK

Lisauskaitė, Elena - 2022

vacancies and unemployed workers. This paper studies the changes in the labour market's efficiency over the period between 2001 … and 2015 in the UK, and decomposes various factors behind it, such as industrial labour market segmentation and … Figura (2015), Hall and Schulhofer-Wohl (2018)), I find that the UK labour market experienced a decrease in the matching …

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The Pond Separates Cultures but Not Values : A Comparative Look at the French Codification of Right to Withdrawal of Labor and the American Concept of At-Will Employment

Wazlavek, Thomas D. Aaron - 2021

The differences and similarities of the United States common law concept of “right to work” and the modern development in France of the right to withdraw labor, after the “yellow vest” movement in 2018, demonstrate a parallel diminution of workers’ rights. These changes are motivated...

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Matching Efficiency and Heterogeneous Workers in the UK

Lisauskaite, Elena - 2022

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Trends in Worker Displacement Penalties in Japan : 1991-2005

Bognanno, Michael L.; Kambayashi, Ryo - 2021

We examine the period from 1991 to 2005 to document the effects of a changing Japanese labor market on trends in the cost of job change. During this period, job change penalties and the extent to which they were age-related grew. Evidence is also found of a diminishing specificity in human...

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