Sachiko, KURODA; Isamu, YAMAMOTO - Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) - 2011
sets a minimum boundary of work hours, and workers hired by the firm are not able to work less than the minimum requirement … explain why Japanese tend to work longer hours than workers in other countries. Based on an empirical framework that each firm … work longer hours. We also found that the greater the workers' firm-specific skills, the more firms placed demands on these …