This study presents evidence on the quantitative relationship between employer-provided training and productivity among Japanese firms. The important contributions of this study are its construction ...
China is undergoing a dual transition from a planned to a market economy, and from a traditional agricultural to a modern industrial society. In this column, we examine how this process has come about ...
The "lost decade" is a term popularly used to describe the Japanese economy of the 1990s, the period following the bursting of the country's economic bubble. Yet even after the problems of ...