Restructuring the economy of the 21st century in Japan and Germany /

This book contains the revised and updated versions of twelve papers which were presented at the 17th joint seminar of the faculties of economics of the Universities of Nagoya and Freiburg. The seminar took place in 1997 in Nagoya and marked the 25th anniversary of the cooperation between both facul...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Schober, Franz, Kishida, Tamiki, Arayama, Yūkō, 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : Duncker & Humblot, ©1999.
Colección:Schriften zu Regional- und Verkehrsproblemen in Industrie- und Entwicklungsländern ; Bd. 65.
Temas:
Economic forecasting > Japan.
Economic forecasting > Germany.
Prévision économique > Japon.
Prévision économique > Allemagne.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Macroeconomics
Economic forecasting.
Germany.
Japan.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface of the Series Editors; Table of Contents; Theodor Dams: Twenty-Five Years of Cooperation between Nagoya and Freiburg; Masatsugu Tsuji: Envisioning the Japanese Economic System in the 21st Century in Relation to Economies of Network; Introduction; A. Economies of Network; I. Definition; II. Contents and Basis of Economies of Network; III. Economies of Scale and Economies of Scope; IV. Industrial Transformation of the Japanese Economy; B. Japanese System I
  • Employment System; I. Characteristics of the Japanese Employment System.
  • II. Economic Foundations of the Japanese Employment SystemC. Japanese System II
  • Industrial Group; I. Horizontal Group: Zaibatsu Group; II. Vertical Group: Hierarchical Production Structure; III. Economic Basis of the Hierarchical Production System; D. Economies of Network and the Japanese System; I. Traditional Information Interchange inside Japanese Firms; II. LAN in Japanese Firms; III. Transformation of the U.S. Economy and Economies of Network; E. Concluding Remarks: The Japanese System in the 21st Century; I. Transformation of the Japanese Economy and the Japanese System.
  • II. Possible Reform of the Japanese SystemAcknowledgment; References; Jürgen Jerger: Nominal Wage Setting and Employment at the Aggregate and Sectoral Level; A. Introduction; B. Nominal Wages and Employment I. Purchasing Power vs. Cost Aspect of Wages; II. Nominal Wage Setting Rules; C. Sectoral and Aggregate Effects of Nominal Wage Variations; I. Some Preliminary Remarks; II. The Sectoral Level; III. The Aggregate Level; IV. Results; D. An Empirical Analysis of Sectoral Data for Germany; E. Conclusions; References.
  • Alexander Spermann: Job Creation in the Low-Wage Sector
  • The Role of Employment SubsidiesA. Introduction; B. The Analytical Framework; C. Employment Subsidies in a One-Sector Model of Equilibrium Unemployment; D. Discussion of the Standard Result; E. General Problems of Employment Subsidies; F. Conclusions; References; Hiroyasu Uemura / Akinori Isogai / Akira Ebizuka: The Hierarchical Market-Firm Nexus and the Institutional Analysis of the Recent Japanese Economy; Introduction; A. Institutional Analysis of ""the Hierarchical Market-Firm Nexus""
  • I. Institutional Analysis and the Régulation ApproachII. Wage-Labour Nexus and Market-Firm Nexus
  • III. The Hypothesis of the Hierarchical Market-Firm Nexus
  • B. The Hierarchical Market-Firm Nexus as a Set of Coordinating Mechanisms in Economic Dynamics; I. Structures of the Incentive Mechanism; II. Cost of Job Change and Institutionalized Job-Loss Costs
  • III. Flexibility of Wages and Employment; IV. Structural Compatibility and Productivity-Enhancing Mechanism in the Hierarchical Market-Firm Nexus
  • V. Socio-economic Reproduction of the Hierarchical Market-Firm Nexus.

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