| Description |
xi, 347 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction / Isao Ohashi and Toshiaki Tachibanaki -- Pt. I. Wages. 2. Wages and Labour Market Institutions in International Comparison / Coen Teulings and Joop Hartog. 3. Job Tenure versus Age: Effects on Wages and the Implication of Consumption for Wages / Souichi Ohta and Toshiaki Tachibanaki --Pt. II. Bargaining and Incentives. 4. Fighting for Turf in an Internal Labour Market / H. Lorne Carmichael. 5. Decentralised Personnel Management /Hideshi Itoh and Osamu Hayashida. 6. A Model for Patterns of Industrial Relations / Shigeru Wakita --Pt. III. Employment Policy. 7. Hiring Risky Workers /Edward P. Lazear. 8. Employer Learning and the Signalling Value of Education / Joseph G. Altonji and Charles R. Pierret. 9. Employment Adjustment in Japanese Firms: Negative Profits and Dismissals /Terukazu Suruga -- Pt. IV. The Internal Labour Market. 10. Is Japan's Long-Term Employment System Changing? /Hiroyuki Chuma |
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11. Intra-Firm Mobility, Wages and Promotion in the Japanese Employment System / Isao Ohashi and Hiroshi Teruyama. 12. German Job Mobility and Wages / Klaus F. Zimmermann -- A Historical Note: Does History Matter? /Konosuke Odaka |
| Summary |
The Japanese style of internal labour markets and their interaction with the external labour market is compared and contrasted with those of Europe and the USA by a strong range of international contributors from Japan, North America and Europe |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
International division of labor.
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Labor market -- Europe.
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Labor market -- Japan.
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Labor market -- United States.
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| Author |
Ōhashi, Isao, 1945-
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Tachibanaki, Toshiaki, 1943-
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| LC no. |
97038225 |
| ISBN |
0312211937 (cloth) |
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0333666739 (Macmillan) |
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