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Labor markets and firm benefit policies in Japan and the United States
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- Creator
- edited by Seiritsu Ogura, Toshiaki Tachibanaki, and David A. Wise
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- English
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003
- Physical Details
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- ix, 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0226620956, 1281125962, 9780226620947, 0226620948, 9786611125967
- OCLC
- ocn476228604, ocm51342689, ocn781254172
- 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.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- 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