The recent increase in the firm-size differential in Japan between 1974 and 1987 is a phenomenon that can be understood primarily in relation to the increase in the unemployment rate over this period. The stability of the U.S. firm-size differential is due to the absence of labor market ...
Japan’s unemployment rate has risen, but has not shot up, hovering at about 3%. Bankruptcies related to the coronavirus total about 800 so far, high for Japan, according to Tokyo Shoko Research. But shopping districts have been packed, a situation that has contributed to the most rec...
More important, I think the unemployment rate will continue to drift downwards (even if only because workers get discouraged and drop out of the labor force) and that will allow Obama to claim – with lots of help from the media – that his policies have started to work. 2. Greece will...
Incidentally, we can cope with such outliers of private demand owing to the flexible modeling of the student-t errors, as already explained in the previous section. 13 For example, we consider Hokkaido to be contiguous with Honshu through the Seikan Railway Tunnel. Honshu and Shikoku are ...
Nonetheless, it is true that (1) the real estate industry, which has been the backbone of the country's economic growth, has faced difficulties; (2) the unemployment rate has risen, mainly among the younger generation; and (3) the country's inflation has been low recently. Therefore, ...
The faster decline in ENM rates could be explained by increased capacity of NICUs improving effective interventions and quality of care to save lives of neonates in Japan. This shows an increased need to focus on decreasing stillbirth rates in Japan, a problem that has also been identified at ...
“The patrimony is a primary resource, but much more would be needed to convert it into a manufacturable product, into a resource that could generate wealth and not be seen as a burden,” he defended. José María Pérez recalled that in 1985, when the youth unemployment rate competed with...
Liz Cheney declared with authority either you vote for Harris, or this “may well be the last real vote you ever get to cast.” Whoopi Goldberg even explained how Trump is committed to being a dictator who will “put you people away… take all the journalists… take all the gay folks…...
I talked to a psychiatrist friend, who explained the concept of amends used by Alcoholics Anonymous. Making amends is one of the last steps toward recovery, and is premised as “we may stop causing any more harm but that is not the same as repairing the damage we have already caused. We...
To study the Japanese labor market we take the viewpoint of the Chain Reaction theory (CRT) of unemployment, which is an alternative to the Structuralist and Institutionalist approaches2 and, as explained in Section 2, provides a wider analytical perspective of the labor market. For example, bey...