Labor Markets and Firm Benefit Policies in Japan and the United States

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
David A. Wise
1. Changing the Guard: The Rise of the United States to Peak Capitalist Economy
Richard B. Freeman
2. The Recent Transformation of Participatory Employment Practices in Japan
Takao Kato
3. Determinants of the Shadow Value of Simultaneous Information Sharing in the Japanese Machine-Tool Manufacturing Industry
Hiroyuki Chuma
4. Who Really Lost Jobs in Japan? Youth Employment in an Aging Japanese Society
Yuji Genda
5. Total Labor Costs and the Employment Adjustment Behavior of Large Japanese Firms
Yoshifumi Nakata and Ryoji Takehiro
6. Individual Expenditures and Medical Saving Accounts: Can They Work?
Matthew J. Eichner, Mark B. McClellan, and David A. Wise
7. Supplementing Public Insurance Coverage with Private Coverage: Implications for Medical Care Systems
David M. Cutler
8. Option Value Estimation with Health and Retirement Study Data
Andrew Samwick and David A. Wise
9. Why Do the Japanese Spend So Much on Drugs?
Seiritsu Ogura and Takehiko Hagino
10. The Demand for Health Checkups under Uncertainty
Tadashi Yamada and Tetsuji Yamada
11. The Role of Firms in Welfare Provision
Toshiaki Tachibanaki
12. Fringe Benefit Provision for Female Part-Time Workers in Japan
Yukiko Abe
13. Unions, the Costs of Job Loss, and Vacation
Fumio Ohtake
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index