The main purpose of this paper is to study how individual differences in implicit worldviews regarding categories versus relationships affect altruistic behavior towards parents, children and non-family members, using the survey data of Korea, Japan and the US. Altruism and intergenerational...

Temporary agency work (TAW) is believed to facilitate the matching between firms and on-the-job searchers. This leads to shortening of the unemployment and job search duration. On the other hand, firms that hire temporary workers have less incentive to train them, which makes it difficult for...

Temporary agency work (TAW) is believed to facilitate matching between firms and job searchers, which results in shortening the unemployment and job search duration. On the other hand, as firms hiring temporary workers have less incentive to train them, it is difficult for low-skilled temporary...