The Changing Japanese Labor Market Theory and Evidence /

• Main Authors: Kitagawa, Akiomi (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Ohta, Souichi (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Teruyama, Hiroshi (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Advances in Japanese Business and Economics,
• Subjects: Labor economics.; Economic growth.; Social policy.; Labor Economics.; Economic Growth.; Social Policy.

This book reappraises the Japanese employment system, characterized by such practices as the periodic recruiting of new graduates, lifetime employment and seniority-based wages, which were praised as sources of high productivity and flexibility for Japanese firms during the period of high economic g...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Overview
• Part 1: Theory
• 2 Flatter Wage Profiles and Reduced Lifetime Employment: A Simple Formalization
• 3 Ranking and Long-term Unemployment in a Model with Efficiency Wages
• Part II Evidence
• 4 Testing the Dual Structure of the Japanese Labor Market
• 5 Duration Dependence of Job-Finding Rates in Japan
• Index.