Labor markets and firm benefit policies in Japan and the United States / edited by Seiritsu Ogura, Toshiaki Tachibanaki, and David A. Wise.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ogura, Seiritsu.

Tachibanaki, Toshiaki, 1943-

Wise, David A.

Series:

National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.

A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor market--Japan--Congresses.

Labor market.

Labor market--United States--Congresses.

Employee fringe benefits--Japan--Congresses.

Employee fringe benefits.

Employee fringe benefits--United States--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (410 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume, the fourth to result from a remarkably productive collaboration between the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Japan Center for Economic Research, presents a selection of thirteen high-caliber papers addressing issues in the employment practices, labor markets, and health, benefit, and pension policies of the United States and Japan. After an opening chapter assessing the recent ascendance of the U.S. economy, papers diverge to tackle a range of specific issues. Focusing less on international comparison than on the assembly of high-quality research, contributors hone in on a variety of individual topics. Chapters delve into issues of youth employment, participatory employment, information sharing, fringe benefits, and drug coverage in Japan, as well as the dynamics of medical savings accounts, private insurance coverage, and benefit options in the U.S. Like previous volumes stemming from NBER/JCER collaboration, this book represents a valuable mass of empirical data on some of the most notable employment and benefits issues in each nation, information that will both anchor and provoke scholarly analysis of these topics well into the future.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Changing the Guard

2 The Recent Transformation of Participatory Employment Practices in Japan

3 Determinants of the Shadow Value of Simultaneous Information Sharing in the Japanese Machine-Tool Manufacturing Industry

4 Who Really Lost Jobs in Japan?

5 Total Labor Costs and the Employment Adjustment Behavior of Large Japanese Firms

6 Individual Expenditures and Medical Saving Accounts

7 Supplementing Public Insurance Coverage with Private Coverage

8 Option Value Estimation with Health and Retirement Study Data

9 Why Do the Japanese Spend So Much on Drugs?

10 The Demand for Health Checkups under Uncertainty

11 The Role of Firms in Welfare Provision

12 Fringe Benefit Provision for Female Part-Time Workers in Japan

13 Unions, the Costs of Job Loss, and Vacation

Contributors

Author Index

Subject Index

Notes:

This volume consists of papers presented at the Japan Center for Economic Research-National Bureau of Economic Research Joint Conference on Labor Markets and Firm Benefits Policies held in Hawaii in January 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786611125967

9781281125965

1281125962

9780226620954

0226620956

OCLC:

476228604