Homework #5
Ryoichi Imai
2004/06/23
Due: Wednesday, 2004/07/07.
The purpose of this homework is to provide an opportunity to have your own understandings of the reading materials in ahead of the class discussion. Type your answers on A4 papers. At the top of your homework, type your name and e-mail address.
Q. Answer the following questions, based on the article `Polarization under Capitalism from Above', by Michio Morishima. The numbers in ( ) represent the corresponding pages. Write your answers in your own words. Never copy a large part of the paragraph, even if you do not know the answer. Too long answers will be severely downgraded.
What are the three Japanese-style practices which are considered to be the virtues that brought the great success of the economy in the past, as well as the sources of the difficulties that it suffers today? (139)
Why do the data of 1909 and 1914 show a relatively small wage differential between small and large companies? (143)
What are the two reasons why the wages in small and medium enterprises were kept so low? (147)
Kazuo Koike asserts that "the only country which can be considered as possessing what might be called a dual industrial structure is Italy, and not Japan". What does this mean? (152)
"Every year, all firms compete for new school leavers in the open labor market. Male and female graduates are taken by them as substitutes, though there is no perfect substitutability." What does this mean? (153)
What are the three origins of the seniority wage system before the Meiji era? (156)
What can we say about the sex differences in the enforcement of the seniority wage system? (160)
From Table 6.8, what can we say about the decomposition of wage differentials into the occupation factors and the education factors? (170)
From Table 6.10, what can we say about the return from education for female workers? (172)
How do Professor Koike and the author differ in explaining the wage differentials between sexes? (177)
Describe what you think about this article.