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Labor markets and firm benefit policies in Japan and the United States /
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, ben...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2003]
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| Colección: | National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.