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Book The Japanese Labor Market in a Comparative Perspective with the United States

Download or read book The Japanese Labor Market in a Comparative Perspective with the United States written by Masanori Hashimoto and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an economic analysis of certain aspects of the Japanese labour market.

Book Labor Market Incorporation of Immigrants in Japan and the United States

Download or read book Labor Market Incorporation of Immigrants in Japan and the United States written by Wayne A. Cornelius and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Comparative Studies of American and Japanese Labor Markets

Download or read book Comparative Studies of American and Japanese Labor Markets written by William Paul Sterling and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Changing Japanese Labor Market

Download or read book The Changing Japanese Labor Market written by Akiomi Kitagawa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reappraises the Japanese employment system, characterized by such practices as the periodic recruiting of new graduates, lifetime employment and seniority-based wages, which were praised as sources of high productivity and flexibility for Japanese firms during the period of high economic growth from the middle of the 1950s until the burst of bubbles in the early 1990s. The prolonged stagnation after the bubble burst induced an increasing number of people to criticize the Japanese employment system as a barrier to the structural changes needed to allow the economy to adjust to the new environment, with detractors suggesting that such a system only serves to protect the vested interests of incumbent workers and firms. By investigating what caused the long stagnation of the Japanese economy, this book examines the validity of this currently dominant view about the Japanese employment system. The rigorous theoretical and empirical analyses presented in this book provide readers with deep insights into the nature of the current Japanese labor market and its macroeconomic impacts.

Book Employment Security and Labor Market Flexibility

Download or read book Employment Security and Labor Market Flexibility written by Kazuyoshi Kōshiro and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the oil crisis of the 1970s, increased labor market flexibility seems to have become an indispensable ingredient of economic success. This book examines the critical issues that affect labor market flexibility and job security in the main industrialized economies of the United States, Japan, West Germany, the United Kingdom, and Europe, in an attempt to more fully understand the complex forces at work within such labor markets. Employment Security and Labor Market Flexibility originated from The International Symposium on Labor Market Flexibility in Yokohama, Japan, in 1986, in which scholars in economics, industrial relations, and labor law scholars scrutinized the similarities and differences of the labor markets in these countries. They focused on three main topics: wage flexibility in response to changing economic conditions, the legal and institutional framework for employment security, and international comparison of employment adjustment. Comparison of wage flexibility as well as numerical and functional flexibility among these countries were examined by both qualitative and quantitative analyses. The labor market cannot be treated in the same way as other markets because it deals directly with human beings who are less likely to obey the immutable laws of the market mechanism. Nevertheless, Kazutoshi Koshiro asserts that it is still important to build a framework on which to understand and assess the role of labor flexibility in the competitive process, and it is with this framework in mind that these chapters have been assembled into one volume. Individual chapters compare the relative flexibility of compensation and employment over the business cycle in the United States with that of Japan; analyze the relative flexibility of Japanese wages; unravel some of the underlying forces that comprise the employment security situation in the United States; study the important relationship between economic conditions and the labor market and explain the difference between the employment protection legislation of the United States on the one hand, and Europe and Japan, on the other; and compare the nature of labor markets and employment adjustment techniques of the United States, Europe, and Japan.

Book Internal Labour Markets in Japan

Download or read book Internal Labour Markets in Japan written by Kenn Ariga and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internal Labour Markets in Japan analyzes the employment practices of individual firms in Japan, including wages, training, promotion, transfers and turnovers across firms. It provides a comprehensive account of the Japanese ILM, and provides theoretical models that are applied to empirical analysis using the data on Japanese firms. It also includes a detailed case study of a large Japanese firm, and contains a section that deals with the most recent changes in Japanese ILM after the "bubble" economy boom and subsequent recession. An international comparative perspective is used throughout.

Book The Labor Economies of Japan and the United States

Download or read book The Labor Economies of Japan and the United States written by Robert Evans and published by New York : Praeger. This book was released on 1971 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparison of the labour relations systems of Japan and the USA - covers trade union development and growth, the strike, public employment policy, the employment relationship and the labour contract, labour force (incl. Rural workers and the woman worker force), labour mobility, unemployment, aggregate wages patterns, productivity, collective bargaining, labour supply, profits, etc. Bibliography pp. 263 to 276, references and statistical tables.

Book Work and Pay in Japan

Download or read book Work and Pay in Japan written by Robert A. Hart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview of Japanese labour market institutions and practices with respect to employment issues and labour payments. It contains extensive discussion of the effects of industrial relations, small business activity, business cycles and schooling on work and pay. An early chapter is devoted to presenting, in an accessible manner, essential labour market ideas and concepts that recur throughout the text. Important topics covered include (i) unions and wage determination, (ii) the breakdown of total labour costs, (iii) the Japanese bonus system, (iv) the employment life-cycle, (v) small businesses and subcontracting, (vi) pay and productivity over the business cycle. A key feature is that subject areas and themes are examined within a comparative United States/European framework. This allows assessments of whether or not the structure and performance of the Japanese labour market has differed from experience elsewhere.

Book Internal Labor Markets in Japan

Download or read book Internal Labor Markets in Japan written by Kenn Ariga and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses the employment practices of individual firms in Japan, including wages, training, promotion, transfers and turnovers across firms. It provides and applies theoretical models of the Japanese ILM, and includes a detailed case study of a large Japanese firm. Uses an international comparative perspective.

Book Internal Labour Markets in Japan

Download or read book Internal Labour Markets in Japan written by Kenn Ariga and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-29 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese labour market practices have attracted considerable attention in the West for two reasons. Firstly, innovative human resource management (HRM) is responsible for the development of competitive industrial sectors. Secondly, inner flexibility of the labour market has produced low unemployment and wage flexibility. This study, originally published in 2000, provides a thorough investigation of the distinctive features of Japanese internal labour markets (ILM) and occupational labour markets (OLM), closely analyses important changes in ILM and considers future developments. It combines a mixture both of descriptive and of theoretical and econometric work and builds on the authors' wel- known previous research in this area. Also contains a detailed case study and the econometric analysis of HRM policies used by a large Japanese firm. Although the focus is on Japanese ILM, international comparisons are made throughout, mainly with reference to Europe and the United States.

Book Marriage  Work  and Family Life in Comparative Perspective

Download or read book Marriage Work and Family Life in Comparative Perspective written by Noriko O. Tsuya and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003-12-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we compare Eastern and Western societies, we find similar economic and social forces at work. But the impact of these on family life reflects differences in cultural history and social context. This volume examines family change in Korea, Japan, and the United States, allowing us to contrast the collective emphasis of a Confucian social heritage with the individualism of the West. An impressive group of demographers and family sociologists considers such questions as: How do family patterns vary within countries and across societies? How essential are marriage and parenthood? How do levels of contact between middle-aged adults and their parents who live elsewhere differ in East Asian countries and the U.S.? How does female employment vary based on family factors and do these factors affect employment across societies? Policy makers and demographic and family researchers both in the U.S. and Asia will find this book a vital resource for understanding the dynamics of family life in contrasting modern societies. Contributors: Larry L. Bumpass, Yong-Chan Byun, Minja Kim Choe, Karen Oppenheim Mason, Ronald R. Rindfluss, Noriko O. Tsuya.

Book Work  Mobility  and Participation

Download or read book Work Mobility and Participation written by Robert E. Cole and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Japanese Economy

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  • Author : Peter Drysdale
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780415174374
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book The Japanese Economy written by Peter Drysdale and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Employment Trends in the United States  Japan  and the European Community

Download or read book Employment Trends in the United States Japan and the European Community written by Eckhardt Wohlers and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unemployment in all Western industrialized countries showed wide differences in the 1980s despite the fact that all of the countries were exposed to similar pressures from ex-ogenous shocks such as the oil price crises and the changeover to floating exchange rates. The examination includes the United States, Japan, and the European Community's economically most important member states: France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom. It analyzes the pace and structure of growth; real wage trends and in wage structure; labor market flexibility and adaptability; and economic policy and socio-economic frameworks.

Book Internal Labour Markets in Japan

Download or read book Internal Labour Markets in Japan written by Kenn Ariga and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internal Labour Markets in Japan analyzes the employment practices of individual firms in Japan, including wages, training, promotion, transfers and turnovers across firms. It provides a comprehensive account of the Japanese ILM, and provides theoretical models that are applied to empirical analysis using the data on Japanese firms. It also includes a detailed case study of a large Japanese firm, and contains a section that deals with the most recent changes in Japanese ILM after the "bubble" economy boom and subsequent recession. An international comparative perspective is used throughout.

Book Labour Market and Economic Performance

Download or read book Labour Market and Economic Performance written by Toshiaki Tachibanaki and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the effect of labour markets on economic performance in an international perspective; Europe, Japan and the US. Labour markets are an important determinant of the performance of both national economies and individual firms, as well as employment rewards such as wages and satisfaction levels. Many countries in Europe suffer from a high level of unemployment. The US economy suffers from low real income growth and widening wage dispersions. The level of worker satisfaction in Japan is relatively low despite her relatively better economic performance. The purpose of this book is to investigate these issues, and to provide readers with explanations of these phenomena and the differences in the performance of labour markets in Europe, Japan and the US. The book includes both theoretical and empirical studies of various countries undertaken by leading labour and macro economists, and presents several policy suggestions.