.../approach The authors' establishment-level analysis (data from the Basic Survey on Wage Structure (BSWS), 2005–2018) focusses on Japan, an economy characterised by many unique economic and institutional features relevant to the aims of the authors' analysis. The authors use an adjusted measure of firm...

... of substitution between the worker types, for use in estimation. Using data from Japan’s Basic Survey on Wage Structure and Population Census from 2010 to 2019 across 47 prefectures, the author estimates the elasticity of substitution between older and younger workers in Japan. Findings The author finds...

... policy (Wakabayashi, 1980). Although most graduates in Japan start work at the beginning of April, JMC's new recruits already have semi‐official employment contracts with the company in their last year of school education. Like other companies in Japan, job seekers in the local labor market are taken up...

...Thomas K. Bauer; Patrick J. Dross; John P. Haisken‐DeNew Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of sheepskin effects in the return to education in Japan. Design/methodology/approach The paper provides a short description of the Japanese schooling and recruitment system...

... set of insights into the Japanese economy. The book begins by examining Japan’s post‐war economic performance relative to other OECD countries and analysing the particular input of labour. The authors consider various explanations as to why Japanese unemployment is lower than rates in Europe...

...Kaye Broadbent Increases in the number of jobs for part‐time workers has had little impact on the rate of unionisation for part‐time workers, the majority of whom are women. The argument run by union officials in Japan is that women, and thus part‐time workers, are not interested in industrial...

.... In the case of the Japanese system of industrial relations, a safe conclusion is that its main characteristics will probably be maintained in coming years. Restructuring of Japan’s financial sector started in late 1998 and continued in 1999 with massive mergers. These reorganizations were expected...

...Yusuhide Tanaka This book addresses various aspects of wage determination and wage differentials in Japan by the empirical method. As is now well known, rising wage inequality during the 1980s was one of the most important economic problems in almost all of the advanced economies and the concern...

... hosts are[ 15 ]. As indicated in the adaptation of Dowling’s model, the internal environment of company A and that of company B’s parent company constituted an important dimension for their HR policies; thus additional investigation into the environment of the parent company was conducted in Japan...

... is it that a typical worker in the US tends to specialize in or concentrate on jobs requiring a narrow set of skills while a typical worker in Japan tends to do several jobs (often within the same firm) requiring several sets of skills? Is it because public policies towards labour differ in the two countries? If so...

...Panos Mourdoukoutas Investigates an economic barrier for foreign affiliates in Japan,the high cost of local labour: to attract qualified workers, foreign affiliates must pay a basic wage premium and offer fewer hours of work over their Japanese counterparts, a factor which reduces cost flexibility...

... against women seeking to enter the labour market. Wage and income tax structures must be reformed if the labour supply of women is to be increased, not to mention their economic and social advancement. TAXATION AND THE FEMALE LABOUR SUPPLY IN JAPAN 5 T he present tax system in Japan, as well...

... in terms of career path and method for determining reward. Within the ongoing fundamental reform, a new model of creative and original R&D is expected to emerge in Japan. © MCB UP Limited 1989 I. PREFACE by Koichiro Imano This monograph is part of the "International Comparative Research Project...