... whether you move along the rows of the table, the columns of the table, or even the diagonal. Indeed,in the Swedish data the monotonicity extends across the propertyboundary as well. In the United ... the United States than in either other country, and credentials a more central role inJapan.3 Overall, Sweden and the United States are much more like each otherthan they are like Japan. The ... contradict the predictions of Hypothesis 3, although theyremain less consistent than those of Sweden and the United States. Overall, then, these results for the three countries suggest that the patterns...