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Japan 1968 : A Reflection Point During the Era of the Economic Miracle

Hamada, K - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1996

centennial year after the Meiji restoration, Japan's GNP became the second largest in the world surpassing West Germany. Japan …

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The Impact of Migrant Workers on the Japanese Economy: Trickle vs. Flood.

Goto, J. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1996

This paper analyses the economic impact of temporary and unskilled migrant workers in Japan, who are illegal according …

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Modeling the Volatility of Real GDP Growth: The Case of Japan Revisited

Fang, WenShwo; Miller, Stephen M. - Department of Economics, University of Nevada-Las Vegas - 2009

Previous studies (e.g., Hamori, 2000; Ho and Tsui, 2003; Fountas et al., 2004) find high volatility persistence of economic growth rates using generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) specifications. This paper reexamines the Japanese case, using the same approach and showing...

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Productivity growth and R&D spillovers in Japanese manufacturing industry

Kwon, Hyeog Ug - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2004

This paper estimates the contribution of R&D spillovers to productivity growth Japanese manufacturing industry by estimating two alternative measures of productivity growth and two different types of R&D spillovers. The results suggest that TFP growth is affected neither by rent R&D spillovers...

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Vacancy Size and Offered Wage: A Source of Search Friction in The Japanese Labor Market

Kambayashi, Ryo; Ueno, Yuko - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2006

Behind rising natural rate of unemployment, they often point out the decline in matching efficiency of the labor market. We empirically examine the cause of matching friction based on the theory of directed search model such as Burdett, Shi and Wright (2001). From rich micro data on vacancy size...

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Falling Down Together? Japanese Keiretsu and the Performance Implications of Affiliation

Isobe, Takehiko; Makino, Shige; Goerzen, Anthony - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2005

Our study investigates the effect of Japanese keiretsu group membership on firm risk and return. Like prior studies, our results show that keiretsu membership has a negative effect on firm profitability. In contrast to prior studies, however, we find that most of our risk measures are positively...

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What does the Bank of Japan do to East Asia?

Mackowiak, Bartosz - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 2005

In recent policy debates some have argued that expansionary monetary policy in Japan can increase real output in Japan … and in Japan´s neighbors, while others have warned that it is a beggar-thy-neighbor policy. In this paper we estimate …-thy-neighbor view. We estimate that the Asian crisis was preceded by expansionary monetary policy shocks in Japan, but we fail to find …

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Sheepskin Effects in Japan

Bauer, Thomas; Dross, Patrick J; Haisken-DeNew, John P - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Using data for the 1990s, this Paper examines the role of sheepskin effects in the returns to education for Japan. Our … the US. These results could be explained by the particular recruitment system of large firms in Japan, which makes the …

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Foreign Trade and Men and Women’s Employment and Earnings in Germany and Japan

Kucera, David - Bernard Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis … - 1998

earnings in Germany and Japan since the early-1970s. The analysis is prompted by trade studies identifying manufacturing … employment in Japan and a more equal effect in Germany. In spite of this, demand shifted away from women's employment in Germany … percentages of employment. No such demand shifts occurred in Japan. In the face of these differences in demand and of remarkable …

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Grandparental effects on reproductive strategizing

Skinner, G. William - In: Demographic Research 11 (2004) 5, pp. 111-148

This paper analyzes data from the household registers for two villages in the Nôbi region of central Japan in the late …

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