We use a panel data set of Japanese firms from 2005 to 2019 to examine how a firm's
employee age structure affects its productivity and wages. The pooled ordinary-least …

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' …

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 …

Are older workers costly to firms? This study aims to investigate the relationship between an
aging workforce on firm productivity and labor costs using a unique Korean firm‐level panel …

Although Japan had largely resolved the problem of non-performing loans by the early
2000s, economic growth hardly accelerated, resulting in the “two lost decades.” This paper …

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 …

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' …

Esta publicación, en dos volúmenes, nace de la urgencia de establecer un marco de
cooperación que fortalezca las capacidades sociales para el diálogo y la negociación como …

Do the benefits firms obtain through globalization go to their workers? For example, do
workers in exporting firms receive higher compensation than those in non-exporting firms …

Japanese employees. More specifically, we estimate the productivity and wage equations of
parttime workers, females, and employees with a university education in order to determine …