Capital and Labour in Japan investigates the working of the capital and labour markets in Japan both theoretically and empirically. The working of the two factor markets - capital and labour - affects the Japanese economy and its firms. Both markets contribute to production, and production is more efficient when these two markets function well....

This volume, the fourth to result from a remarkably productive collaboration between the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Japan Center for Economic Research, presents a selection of thirteen high-caliber papers addressing issues in the employment practices, labor markets, and health, benefit, and pension policies of the United States an...

Contrary to general belief, and to Japan\'s own self-image, inequality of income and wealth distribution in Japan has grown in the past two decades. In this well-written and accessible book, Toshiaki Tachibanaki analyzes the movement toward more income inequality in Japan and offers policy recommendations to counter the trend....

Wage determination is studied here in an international perspective, using a common theoretical framework and statistical method through the individual-country chapters to reveal similarities and differences between Japan, South Korea, the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and several countries in Asia....

The book attempts to examine whether trade unions in Japan contributed to raising wages, productivity and firms\' performance. In the Western world trade unions are often regarded as organizations which prevent firms form performing well. The Japanese case may be different from Europe and North America....

Japan experienced a period of strong industrialization in the 1950s and 1960s, reaching an exceptionally high level of per-capita GNP or per-capita income....

The population base in both the United States and Japan is growing older and, as those populations age, they provoke heretofore unexamined economic consequences....

Banking, Capital Markets and Corporate Governance explores the fragility of the banking system, corporate governance, and the increasing securitization of corporate finance....

Within twenty years of an outburst of frenzied destruction and bestial slaughter, of deprivation, misery and hopelessness, the majority of the population in Western Europe and Japan found themselves suddenly, unprecedently rich. How this happened and how it was experienced if the subject of this book....