The Path to Higher Growth : Does Revamping Japan's Dual Labor Market Matter? /

This paper argues that Japan's excessive labor market duality can reduce Total Factor Productivity (TFP) due to a negative impact on non-regular workers' effort and on firms' incentives to train them. On the basis of cross-country empirical evidence, the paper proposes some reform opt...

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Autore principale: Aoyagi, Chie
Altri autori: Ganelli, Giovanni
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2013.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2013/202
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF