Using industry‐and micro‐level data, this paper examines why J apan's productivity growth
has been slow for such a long time and how it can be accelerated in the future. J apan's …

This paper argues that Japan's excessive labor market duality can reduce Total Factor
Productivity (TFP) due to a negative impact on non-regular workers' effort and on firms' …

This paper focuses on the German labor market for older workers. It does so in comparison
with other countries and with a unique focus on the role of employer incentives for retaining …

Japan has been suffering from a lack of final demand for the last two decades. Through the
BOJ's massive stimulus measures and active fiscal policies, Japan finally appears to be …

This paper constructs a growth model of the distance from the world technology frontier to
argue that firms' incentives to innovate and the government's decision on implementing …

Japan's labor market has traditionally been characterized by the lifetime employment
system, under which employers refrain from firing workers and workers implicitly commit not …

The article offers information on the benefits of new unit-record datasets representing the
link of employees and employers. It informs that these datasets offer important information …

This paper aims to examine three issues: how bad the productivity performance in Japan's
service sector has been; why it is important to accelerate TFP growth in the service sector; …

By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of worker
performance, we provide some of the most rigorous evidence to date on several related …

In estimating the production function of firms, problems of endogeneity and self selection
exist as a result of firm-specific productivity shocks and entry/exit decisions. Several methods …