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Download full textMincer, Jacob; Higuchi, Yoshio – 1988
A study was conducted to test the proposition that intensive formation of human capital on the job is the basic reason for the strong degree of worker attachment to the firm in Japan. The greater emphasis on training and retraining, much of it specific to the firm, results also in steeper wage trajectories, because of growth of skills in the firm,…
Descriptors: Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Experience, Employment Level, Employment Practices
Walwei, Ulrich; Werner, Heinz; Konig, Ingeborg – 2001
This document contains three papers from an international conference on "ways and means for more employment." The first paper, "Employment Policy Comparisons and Policy Advice" (Ulrich Walwei), covers the German labor market in the second half of the 1990s and requirements for longer-term employment success through coping with…
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, Developed Nations, Economic Development
