Labor markets and firm benefit policies in Japan and the United States:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2003
Series:National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:This volume consists of papers presented at the Japan Center for Economic Research-National Bureau of Economic Research Joint Conference on Labor Markets and Firm Benefits Policies held in Hawaii in January 2000
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Changing the guard - Richard B. Freeman -- - Recent transformation of participatory employment practices in Japan - Takao Kato -- - Determinants of the shadow value of simultaneous information sharing in the Japanese machine-tool manufacturing industry - Hiroyuki Chuma -- - Who really lost jobs in Japan? - Yuji Genda -- - Total labor costs and the employment adjustment behavior of large Japanese firms - Yoshifumi Nakata and Ryoji Takehiro -- - Individual expenditures and medical saving accounts - Matthew J. Eichner, Mark B. McClellan, and David A. Wise -- - Supplementing public insurance coverage with private coverage - David M. Cutler -- - Option value estimation with health and retirement study data - Andrew Samwick and David A. Wise -- - Why do the Japanese spend so much on drugs? - Seiritsu Ogura and Takehiko Hagino -- - Demand for health checkups under uncertainty - Tadashi Yamada and Tetsuji Yamada -- - Role of firms in welfare provision - Toshiaki Tachibanaki -- - Fringe benefit provision for female part-time workers in Japan - Yukiko Abe -- - Unions, the costs of job loss, and vacation - Fumio Ohtake
This volume, the fourth to result from a remarkably productive collaboration between the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Japan Center for Economic Research, presents a selection of thirteen high-caliber papers addressing issues in the employment practices, labor markets, and health, benefit, and pension policies of the United States and Japan. After an opening chapter assessing the recent ascendance of the U.S. economy, papers diverge to tackle a range of specific issues. Focusing less on international comparison than on the assembly of high-quality research, contributors hone in
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 400 p.)
ISBN:9780226620954
0226620956

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