Long-term Employment and Job Security over the Last Twenty-Five Years: A Comparative Study of Japan and the U.S
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Keywords
Great Recession; job security; long-term employment; Lost Decade; Japan and the U.S.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
- J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
- J41 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Labor Contracts
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2011-12-19 (Business Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2011-12-19 (Labour Economics)
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