TY  - JOUR
AU  - Abraham,Katharine G.
AU  - Houseman,Susan N.
TI  - Job Security and Work Force Adjustment:  How Different are U.S. and     Japanese Practices?
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 3155
PY  - 1990
Y2  - June 1990
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3155
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3155.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Katharine G. Abraham
Joint Program in Survey Methodology
1218 LeFrak Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD  20742
Tel: 301/405-1004
Fax: 301/314-7912
E-Mail: kabraham@survey.umd.edu
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 1990-05-01
AB  - This paper compares employment and hours adjustment in Japanese and U.S. manufacturing. In contrast to some previous work, we find that adjustment of total labor input to demand changes is significantly greater in the United States than in Japan; adjustment of employment is significantly greater in the United States, while that of average hours is about the same in the two countries. Although workers in Japan enjoy greater employment stability than do U.S. workers, we find considerable variability in the adjustment patterns across groups within each country. In the United States, most of the adjustment is borne by production workers. In Japan, female workers, in particular, bear a  disproportionate share of adjustment.
ER  -