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"Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. Our lives depend on these relationships - and are imperiled by them as well. Nowhere is this truer than on the Japanese archipelago." "During the nineteenth century, Japan saw the rise of Homo sapiens industrialis, a new breed of human transformed by an engineered, industrialized, and poisonous environment. Toxins moved freely from mines, factory sites, and rice paddies into human bodies." "Toxic Archipelago explores how toxic pollution works its way into porous human bodies and brings unimaginable pain to some of them. Brett Walker examines startling case studies of industrial toxins: deaths from insecticide contaminations; poisonings from copper, zinc, and lead mining; congenital deformities from methylmercury factory effluents; and lung diseases from sulfur dioxide and asbestos." "This powerful, probing book demonstrates how the Japanese archipelago has become industrialized over the last two hundred years - and how people and the environment have suffered as a consequence"--Jacket.
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This volume, the fourth to result from a remarkably productive collaboration between the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Japan Center for Economic Research, presents a selection of thirteen high-caliber papers addressing issues in the employment practices, labor markets, and health, benefit, and pension policies of the United States and Japan. After an opening chapter assessing the recent ascendance of the U.S. economy, papers diverge to tackle a range of specific issues. Focusing less on international comparison than on the assembly of high-quality research, contributors hone in on a variety of individual topics. Chapters delve into issues of youth employment, participatory employment, information sharing, fringe benefits, and drug coverage in Japan, as well as the dynamics of medical savings accounts, private insurance coverage, and benefit options in the U.S. Like previous volumes stemming from NBER/JCER collaboration, this book represents a valuable mass of empirical data on some of the most notable employment and benefits issues in each nation, information that will both anchor and provoke scholarly analysis of these topics well into the future.
Employee fringe benefits --- Labor market --- Employee fringe benefits. --- Employee fringe benefits - Japan - Congresses. --- Labor market - Japan - Congresses. --- Labor market - United States - Congresses. --- Labor market. --- Socioeconomic Factors --- Insurance, Health --- Personnel Management --- Income --- Culture --- Sociology --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Organization and Administration --- Population Characteristics --- Insurance --- Health Services Administration --- Social Sciences --- Health Care --- Financing, Organized --- Anthropology --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Economics --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Cross-Cultural Comparison --- Health Benefit Plans, Employee --- Salaries and Fringe Benefits --- Employment --- Business & Economics --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Benefits, Employee --- Benefits, Fringe --- Employee benefits --- Fringe benefits --- Non-wage payments --- Perks (Employee fringe benefits) --- Perquisites (Employee fringe benefits) --- Employees --- Market, Labor --- Supply and demand for labor --- Supply and demand --- Compensation management --- Labor costs --- Wages --- Markets --- Japan. --- United States. --- E-books --- Paternity Benefits --- Pay Equity --- Salaries --- Fringe Benefits --- Benefit, Fringe --- Benefit, Paternity --- Benefits, Paternity --- Equities, Pay --- Equity, Pay --- Fringe Benefit --- Paternity Benefit --- Pay Equities --- Salary --- Wage --- CHAMPUS --- Employee Health Benefit Plans --- Cost Sharing --- Transcultural Studies --- Comparison, Cross-Cultural --- Comparisons, Cross-Cultural --- Cross Cultural Comparison --- Cross-Cultural Comparisons --- Studies, Transcultural --- Study, Transcultural --- Transcultural Study --- Cultural Characteristics --- Employment Insecurity --- Employment Status --- Labor Force --- Marginal Employment --- Occupational Status --- Precarious Employment --- Status, Occupational --- Underemployment --- Employment Termination --- Employment Insecurities --- Employment, Marginal --- Employment, Precarious --- Insecurity, Employment --- Labor Forces --- Status, Employment --- Termination, Employment --- Rehabilitation, Vocational --- Work --- Bonin Islands --- Employee fringe benefits - United States --- Labor market - United States --- Employee fringe benefits - Japan --- Labor market - Japan --- work, workforce, marketplace, benefits, policy, policymaker, international, global, eastern, western, japanese, usa, america, american, academic, scholarly, research, collaboration, collaborative, national, bureau, economic, economics, economy, finance, financial, wealth, income, power, money, monetary, essay collection, pension, health, retirement, employment, employer, savings, medical, insurance.
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