This article reviews research on the coevolution of educational expansion and educational
inequality within China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan in the post–World War II period …

Among a vast literature on the Asian economies, the book proposes a distinctive approach,
inspired by régulation theory, to understand the current transformations of the Asian …

In this paper we document the main features of the distributions of wages, earnings,
consumption and wealth in Japan since the early 1980s using four main data sources: the …

In the 1980s the performance of Japan's economy was an international success story, and
led many economists to suggest that the 1990s would be a Japanese decade. Today …

Are workers in modern economies working “too hard”—would they be better off in an
equilibrium with fewer work hours? We examine changes in life satisfaction of Japanese and …

The income gap between urban and rural residents has long been a predicament for China.
The differences between returns to education in urban and rural China are one of the …

Why has wage inequality not changed in Japan while it has secularly increased in the US
over the last few decades? Pointing to the difference in the trends of the college wage …

After the burst of the bubble economy at the beginning of the 1990s, pay practices in
Japanese companies have undergone significant changes that are characterised by a shift …

This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons
and daughters born between 1935 and 1975. Our estimates rely on a two-sample …

In the 1980s and 1990s, the US labor market experienced a remarkable polarization along
with fast technological catch-up as Europe and Japan improved their global innovation …