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of almost half of Germany's nuclear reactors while safety checks were carried out, and a three-month moratorium on … companies to renewable energies companies in Germany. We moreover find that the joint market capitalization of these firms has …
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adequate care quality. In the third step, we identify solutions for these challenges by comparing the care systems of Germany …, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, and South Korea …
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First moves towards a real understanding of offshoring date back to very recent times. In particular for Japan, the …
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The Japanese lost decade has become an intriguing puzzle for both economists and policy-makers alike, as the unemployment rate climbed to unprecedented levels and the growth rate of productivity decreased considerably. More recent times seem to present with a more optimistic outlook, but this is...
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This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between … intergenerational income elasticity (IGE) for both sons and daughters, in Japan lies around .35, which is an intermediate value, by …
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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 …
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cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers' overtime costs in Japan around 1990 and Korea in the early 2000s … reduction in market time, with the free-up time in Japan reallocated to leisure and personal maintenance, while in Korea the …
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-term consequences for the labor market structure. To this end, we examine Japan's Lost Decade, the original Great Recession that … during Japan's Lost Decade there was a significant shift of the composition of employment toward "bad jobs." Second, we find … women in Japan made considerable progress in shifting the composition of their employment toward "good jobs" during Japan …
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data in Japan and interprets them from the perspective of task-specific human capital. We find that firms synchronize their …
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Are workers in modern economies working "too hard" – would they be better off if an equilibrium with fewer work hours were achieved? We examine changes in life satisfaction of Japanese and Koreans over a period when hours of work were cut exogenously because employers suddenly faced an...
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