| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 400 pages) : illustrations |
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A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report |
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National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Labour market |
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Japan |
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United States |
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Statistics |
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International comparisons |
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Overseas item |
| Notes |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Labor market -- Japan -- Congresses
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Labor market -- United States -- Congresses
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Employee fringe benefits -- Japan -- Congresses
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Employee fringe benefits -- United States -- Congresses
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Employment (Economic theory)
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Cross-cultural studies.
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Employment
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Cross-Cultural Comparison
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Health Benefit Plans, Employee
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Salaries and Fringe Benefits
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employing.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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Employment (Economic theory)
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Cross-cultural studies
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Employee fringe benefits
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Labor market
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Arbeidsmarkt.
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Sociale zekerheid.
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| SUBJECT |
Japan https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007564 |
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United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
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Japan
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ogura, Seiritsu, editor.
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Tachibanaki, Toshiaki, 1943- editor.
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橘木, 俊詔, (1943- )
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Wise, David A., editor.
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| ISBN |
9780226620954 |
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0226620956 |
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9780226620947 |
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0226620948 |
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1281125962 |
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9781281125965 |
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