late 1970s and early 1980s. These changes were concurrent with a rapid rise in import competition from Japan. We assess the … impact of this trade shock on racial disparities using commuting zone level variation in exposure. We find it decreased black …

paper I illustrate their long-term consequences. I first consider the influence of the slave trade on the "sending … consequences of the slave trade on the "receiving" countries in the Americas. Here I distinguish between the case of Latin America …

are critical in accounting for the differences in size distribution between the U.S. and Japan. -- distortions ; size …

-national analysis of micro data from Japan's Employment Status Survey and its U.S. counterpart, Current Population Survey. Our focus is … core employees (employees of prime age of 30-44 who have already accumulated at least five years of tenure) in Japan were … remarkably stable at around 70 percent over the last twenty-five years, and there is little evidence that Japan's Great Recession …

uniform data covering 11 European countries and Japan. Using the NLSY, we replicate the information in this survey to compare … conventional wisdom, job mobility in Japan is only somewhat lower than the European average. (3) There are large differences in job … mobility within Europe. -- job mobility ; graduates ; Europe ; Japan ; US …

and Japan to investigate whether these behaviors in middle and high school are affected by the gender composition of … males and for females in the US and the probability of sport participation for males in Japan. We also find that parental … education matters more for these behaviors in the US than in Japan, and that in the latter country the oldest son or daughter …

countries, plus the US and Japan. Main findings include a high degree of regulation in wage setting in most countries. Although …-setting institutions. -- Wage bargaining ; institutions ; indexation ; trade union membership ; cluster analysis …