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Employment effects of offshoring across sectors and occupations in Japan
(Wiley, 2012)
In the case of Japan, the studies conducted so far focus alone on firm-level data and delve into the productivity effects and the skill upgrading between skilled and unskilled workers. Here, we carry ...
Unemployment in Japan: a look at the lost decade
(Institute for Research into International Competitiveness; Curtin Business School, 2008)
The ‘lost decade’ in Japan was a period of steep surge in unemployment. It started in 1991 with the unemployment rate at 2.1%, and ended in 2002 when it reached a historical maximum of 5.5%. To assess ...
The fading 1990s in Japan: driving forces behind the unemployment upsurge
(Elsevier, 2009)
This paper sheds new light on the causes of the unemployment upsurge in Japan during the “fading 1990s”, an unprecedented period of structural crisis. We estimate a labor market model and identify the ...
La deslocalització de serveis: una perspectiva global i local
(Generalitat de Catalunya: Departament d'Economia i Finances, 2008)
To comply or not to comply? How a UEFA wage-to-revenue requirement might affect the sport and managerial performance of soccer clubs
(Wiley, 2023)
This paper evaluates the soccer clubs' compliance with a potential wage-to-revenue requirement by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and studies the effect on sport achievements resulting ...
More alike than different: the Spanish and Irish labour markets before and after the crisis
(Springer Nature, 2012)
Spain and Ireland might seem at first to feature very different labour markets, which go from very tight to very flexible labour conditions. Our analysis, however, goes beyond this simplistic argument ...
Measuring Indonesian young consumers’ halal purchase intention of foreign-branded food products
(Springer Nature, 2024)
This article is among the few focusing on halal young consumer behavior in Indonesia. The focus is to examine the topic of halal food product purchase intention. Here, we focus specifically on Muslim ...
Do reductions of standard hours affect employment transitions?: evidence from Chile
(Elsevier, 2013)
This study exploits the reduction of weekly working hours from 48 to 45 announced in Chile in 2001 and implemented in 2005. Our results suggest that non-anticipatory behavior of firms was found on key ...
How do business schools compete in Latin America? Stability and best predictors of success for the America Economia MBA Ranking
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)
The main aim of this paper is to present a longitudinal analysis of the AmericaEconomia MBA Ranking for the period 2005–2014. AmericaEconomia was the first international ranking specifically devoted to ...
Does a mandatory reduction of standard working hours improve employees' health status?
(Wiley, 2016)
Most of the empirical evidence regarding the impact of reductions of standard working hours analyzes its effects on employment outcomes, family life balance, and social networks, but there is no empirical ...