Labor Market Adjustments In The Pacific Basin

Author : Peter Chinloy,Ernst Stromsdorfer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789400932517

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Labor Market Adjustments in the Pacific Basin by Peter Chinloy,Ernst Stromsdorfer Pdf

Peter T. Chinloy and Ernst W. Stromsdorfer I. Background to Adjustments in Labor Markets The book examines the process of adjustment in labor markets across countries arising from external shocks and shifts in international competi tiveness. The examination of specific countries and their data permits a comparison of alternative institutions for compensating and redeploying labor. Four countries are involved, whose labor markets are both competi tive and complementary: Canada, Japan, Mexico, and the United States. Both public labor market institutions, such as direct government com~ pensation of displaced workers and the effect of unemployment insurance, and private market arrangements, such as em loyer-employee agreements on layoffs, the work contract, and severance pay, are considered. Compara tive examination across countries of labor market and related insitutions is thus possible. The book has a common theme, namely the adjustment of labor markets to exogenous shocks, particularly those externally induced. The unifying focus in on workers whose specific skills in an industry or firm render them relatively immobile.

Author : Mai Dao,Davide Furceri,Mr.Prakash Loungani
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781498302715

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Regional Labor Market Adjustments in the United States by Mai Dao,Davide Furceri,Mr.Prakash Loungani Pdf

We examine patterns of regional adjustments to shocks in the US during the past four decades. We find that the response of interstate migration to relative labor market conditions has decreased, while the role of the unemployment rate as absorber of regional shocks has increased. However, the response of net migration to regional shocks is stronger during aggregate downturns and increased particularly during the Great Recession. We offer a potential explanation for the cyclical pattern of migration response based on the variation in consumption risk sharing.

Author : Kazuyoshi Kōshiro
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814320791

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Employment Security and Labor Market Flexibility by Kazuyoshi Kōshiro Pdf

Since the oil crisis of the 1970s, increased labor market flexibility seems to have become an indispensable ingredient of economic success. This book examines the critical issues that affect labor market flexibility and job security in the main industrialized economies of the United States, Japan, West Germany, the United Kingdom, and Europe, in an attempt to more fully understand the complex forces at work within such labor markets. Employment Security and Labor Market Flexibility originated from The International Symposium on Labor Market Flexibility in Yokohama, Japan, in 1986, in which scholars in economics, industrial relations, and labor law scholars scrutinized the similarities and differences of the labor markets in these countries. They focused on three main topics: wage flexibility in response to changing economic conditions, the legal and institutional framework for employment security, and international comparison of employment adjustment. Comparison of wage flexibility as well as numerical and functional flexibility among these countries were examined by both qualitative and quantitative analyses. The labor market cannot be treated in the same way as other markets because it deals directly with human beings who are less likely to obey the immutable laws of the market mechanism. Nevertheless, Kazutoshi Koshiro asserts that it is still important to build a framework on which to understand and assess the role of labor flexibility in the competitive process, and it is with this framework in mind that these chapters have been assembled into one volume. Individual chapters compare the relative flexibility of compensation and employment over the business cycle in the United States with that of Japan; analyze the relative flexibility of Japanese wages; unravel some of the underlying forces that comprise the employment security situation in the United States; study the important relationship between economic conditions and the labor market and explain the difference between the employment protection legislation of the United States on the one hand, and Europe and Japan, on the other; and compare the nature of labor markets and employment adjustment techniques of the United States, Europe, and Japan.

Author : John M. Abowd,Richard B. Freeman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226000961

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Immigration, Trade, and the Labor Market by John M. Abowd,Richard B. Freeman Pdf

Are immigrants squeezing Americans out of the work force? Or is competition wth foreign products imported by the United States an even greater danger to those employed in some industries? How do wages and unions fare in foreign-owned firms? And are the media's claims about the number of illegal immigrants misleading? Prompted by the growing internationalization of the U.S. labor market since the 1970s, contributors to Immigration, Trade, and the Labor Market provide an innovative and comprehensive analysis of the labor market impact of the international movements of people, goods, and capital. Their provocative findings are brought into perspective by studies of two other major immigrant-recipient countries, Canada and Australia. The differing experiences of each nation stress the degree to which labor market institutions and economic policies can condition the effect of immigration and trade on economic outcomes Contributors trace the flow of immigrants by comparing the labor market and migration behavior of individual immigrants, explore the effects of immigration on wages and employment by comparing the composition of the work force in local labor markets, and analyze the impact of trade on labor markets in different industries. A unique data set was developed especially for this study—ranging from an effort to link exports/imports with wages and employment in manufacturing industries, to a survey of illegal Mexican immigrants in the San Diego area—which will prove enormously valuable for future research.

Author : Hugh Patrick
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1991-12-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0231513828

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Pacific Basin Industries in Distress by Hugh Patrick Pdf

Pacific Basin Industries in Distress

Author : Alan S. Blinder
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815717126

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Paying for Productivity by Alan S. Blinder Pdf

Will higher pay provide an incentive for better work? Can productivity be increased by changing the way workers are compensated? In response to the urgent need to improve productivity performance in American industry, leading economists examine alternative compensation schemes to assess their efficiency in raising productivity. Over the years a number of suggestions have been made for improving labor productivity by changing the manner in which laborers are compensated for their efforts. The ideas presented and analyzed in this volume have all been put into practice, in modified form or on a small scale, in the United States or elsewhere. Some are new; others quite old. David I. Levine and Laura D'Andrea Tyson consider the effects of employee participation in decisionmaking on firm performance, and Martin L. Weitzman and Douglas L. Kruse discuss the implications of profit sharing and related forms of pay for group performance. Michael A. Conte and Jan Svejnar analyze employee stock ownership plans in the United States and other forms of worker ownership in Europe; Masanore Hashimoto uses a transaction-cost perspective to assess Japanese employment and wage systems. Daniel J. B. Mitchell, David Lewin, and Edward E. Lawler III give an overall analysis of traditional and alternative pay systems, their history, development, and curent use, and recommend further experimentation with alternative compensation plans to ensure more adaptability on the part of U.S. firms. Blinder provides an overview of the findings and conclusions.

Author : John A. Turner
Publisher : W.E. Upjohn Institute
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780880992220

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Pay at Risk by John A. Turner Pdf

Comprises seven papers which analyse risk bearing by workers in the USA and Canada. Examines changes in wages and job risk, employment arrangements, health care coverage, social security and occupational pension schemes and accident compensation mainly from the 1970s to the 1990s. Discusses policy options.

Author : James P. Begin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783110813159

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Dynamic Human Resource Systems by James P. Begin Pdf

The goal of this work was to use these cross-national comparisons to better understand how human resource policies operate to affect firm performance, not as individual practices, but as bundles of interacting practices that have positive effects on both productivity and the quality of life of workers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Economic stabilization
ISBN : IND:30000042425110

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Economic Competition, Restructuring, and Worker Dislocation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Occupational training
ISBN : UOM:39015038081728

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Evaluation Forum by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:30000005269489

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Evaluation Forum, Issue 11, Summer 1995 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hang-Sheng Cheng
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789400926851

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Monetary Policy in Pacific Basin Countries by Hang-Sheng Cheng Pdf

The chapters in this book are based on papers prepared for a conference organized by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, held at the bank September 23-25, 1987, to review and compare monetary policy experiences of Pacific Basin countries during the past 15 years. The theme of the conference was conceived with two purposes in mind. First, there was (and still is) a great need to enhance knowledge on the workings of economies in the Pacific Basin, which has been the fastest growing region in the world economy during the past 30 years. While much has been written on Pacific Basin trade and economic growth, relatively few studies have been published on the conduct of monetary policy in these economies. Second, as we in the United States and others elsewhere have learned, rapid financial market changes over the last 15 years have led to considerable adjustment in the conduct of monetary policy. A comparative study of various national experiences can yield insights into the inter actions between monetary policy and financial market changes more than is obtainable by examining indi vidual national experiences separately.

Author : Burt S. Barnow,Christopher T. King
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 087766689X

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Improving the Odds by Burt S. Barnow,Christopher T. King Pdf

The labor market has changed dramatically in recent decades. In the 1980s an average of 2 million workers each year lost their jobs because of the increasingly global economy, rapid advances in technology, and corporate downsizing. During the same period, immigration increased and Congress passed welfare reform legislation that required many more Americans to join the workforce. Legislators have looked closely at federal job training programs in recent years, and in 1998 passed the two major acts mandating change. In Improving the Odds, experts on labor policy explore the effects of current programs on earnings and employment, recommend improvements in programs, and assess the methodologies used to measure their effectiveness. The editors offer several strategies to help policymakers design programs that fulfill the promise of keeping workers out of poverty. Contents: -Publicly Funded Training in a Changing Labour Market (Burt S. Barnow and Christopher T. King) -The Economic, Demographic, and Social Context of Future Employment and Training Programs (Frank Bennici, Steven Mangum, and A ndrew M. Sum) -Welfare Employment Programs: Impacts and Cost-Effectiveness of Employment and Training Activities (Lisa Plimpton and Demetra Smith Nightingale) -The Impact of Job Training Partnership Act Programs for Adult Welfare Recipients (Jodi Nudelman) -Training Success Stories for Adults and Out-of-School Youth: A Tale of Two States (Christopher T. King, with Jerome A. Olson, Leslie O. Lawson, Charles E. Trott, and John Baj) -Employment and Training Programs for Out-of-School Youth: Past Effects and Lessons for the Future (Robert I. Lerman) -Customized Training for Employers: Training People for Jobs That Exist and Employers Who Want to Hire Them (Kellie Isbell, John Trutko, and vBurt S. Barnow) -Training Programs for Dislocated Workers (Duane E. Leigh) -Methodologies for Determining the Effectiveness of Training Programs (Daniel Friedlander, David H. Greenberg, and Philip K. Robins) -Reflections on Training Policies and Programs (Garth L. Mangum) -Strategies for Improving the Odds (Burt S. Barnow and Christopher T. King).

Author : Susan Horton
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Labor market
ISBN : 0821326813

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Labor markets in an era of adjustment : an overview by Susan Horton Pdf

Author : Dipak Mazumdar
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Corea - Condiciones economicas
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Korea's Labor Markets Under Structural Adjustment by Dipak Mazumdar Pdf

Korea's ability to keep the economy from going off the rails has been as remarkable as its achievement of high long- run growth rates. The key to the success of Korea's labor policy - state guidelines limited the wage increases under structural adjustment - was the high rate of total factor productivity growth.