Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Ogura, Seiritsu.
2. Tachibanaki, Toshiaki, 1943-
3. Wise, David A.

Description

1. ix, 400 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report

Subject

1. Labor market > United States > Congresses
2. Employee fringe benefits > United States > Congresses
3. Labor market > Japan > Congresses
4. Employee fringe benefits > Japan > Congresses

Contents

1. Changing the guard / Richard B. Freeman -- Recent transformation of participatory employment practices in Japan / Takao Kato -- Determinants of the shadow value of simultaneous information sharing in the Japanese machine-tool manufacturing industry / Hiroyuki Chuma -- Who really lost jobs in Japan? / Yuji Genda -- Total labor costs and the employment adjustment behavior of large Japanese firms / Yoshifumi Nakata and Ryoji Takehiro -- Individual expenditures and medical saving accounts / Matthew J. Eichner, Mark B. McClellan, and David A. Wise -- Supplementing public insurance coverage with private coverage / David M. Cutler -- Option value estimation with health and retirement study data / Andrew Samwick and David A. Wise -- Why do the Japanese spend so much on drugs? / Seiritsu Ogura and Takehiko Hagino -- Demand for health checkups under uncertainty / Tadashi Yamada and Tetsuji Yamada -- Role of firms in welfare provision / Toshiaki Tachibanaki -- Fringe benefit provision for female part-time workers in Japan / Yukiko Abe -- Unions, the costs of job loss, and vacation / Fumio Ohtake.

Call number

1. JBE 03-2017

Note

1. 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.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Title

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

Imprint

1. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Series

1. A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added author

1. Ogura, Seiritsu.
2. Tachibanaki, Toshiaki, 1943-
3. Wise, David A.

LCCN

1. 2003041000

ISBN

1. 0226620948 (cloth : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JBE 03-2017