The authors investigate the adjustments in employment of regular and non-regular workers,
exploiting the exchange-rate fluctuation and heterogeneous dependence on international …

Approximately 40% of Japanese physicians report working more than 960 hr of overtime
annually, with 10% exceeding 1860 hr. To protect their health, annual overtime limits went …

When output demand drops during recessions, employers decrease labor inputs by cutting
workers and/or hours. If pre-recession hours were excessive, cutting hours might increase …

This paper develops and assesses empirically a simple model of firms' optimal decision
regarding working hours, where productivity varies with hours and where the firm faces …

The purpose of this study is to account for the increase in non-regular workers, namely, part-
time and dispatched workers, in the Japanese economy from the early 2000s. We use a firm …

This paper analyses aggregate labour dynamics during the global financial crisis in Japan
and the role of non-standard work using micro data. The analysis proceeds in two steps …

The individualism-collectivism dimension has established itself in interdisciplinary cross-
cultural studies in recent decades as the most significant determinant for a variety of …

Socioeconomic panel data indicate that numerous employees would prefer to work less, ie
that they are overemployed. However, due to inconsistent definitions and divergent …

This chapter reviews the works by economists on what it means to work beyond the age of
50. That question directly echoes the context of aging populations characterizing most …

Although a growing body of literature identifies the within-firm redistribution effects of trade,
research on the adjustment processes in within-firm labor markets remains scarce. This …