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Education and pro-family altruistic discrimination against foreigners : five-country comparisons
Sasaki, Shusaku; Okuyama, Naoko; Ōgaki, Masao; Ōtake, … - 2017
questions in internet surveys across five countries: Germany, the US, Singapore, South Korea, and Japan. Our analysis shows that … foreigners. However, the degree of discrimination differs across countries. It is lowest in Germany and largest in Japan; the … education and altruistic discrimination differ widely. In Germany, people who have spent less time in education exhibit lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011645222
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Time discounting : declining impatience and interval effect
Kinari, Yusuke (contributor); Ōtake, Fumio (contributor);  … - 2007
Most studies have not distinguished delay from intervals, so that whether the declining impatience really holds has been an open question. We conducted an experiment that explicitly distinguishes them, and confirmed the declining impatience. This implies that people make dynamically inconsistent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003407379
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Organization adjustments, job training and productivity : evidence from Japanese automobile makers
Ariga, Ken; Kurosawa, Masako; Ōtake, Fumio; Sasaki, Masaru - 2010
This paper considers the demand for job training and its interaction with organization adjustments through rotation within a team and relocation across teams in response to demand and supply shocks. The analysis includes estimations of determinants of on-thejob training, and of how much such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003996945
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Koizumi carried the day : did the Japanese election results make people happy and unhappy?
Tsutsui, Yoshirō (contributor);  … - 2007
Cabinet ; survey ; Japan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003502801
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Procrastinators and hyperbolic discounters : probability of transition from temporary to full-time employment
Leea, SunYoun; Ōtake, Fumio - 2012
results indicate that TAW for employees in Japan is more likely to function as a "dead-end" rather than ";stepping stone …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009532220
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What does a temporary help service job offer? : empirical suggestions from a Japanese survey
Okudaira, Hiroko; Ōtake, Fumio; Kume, Koichi; Tsuru, … - 2011
The aim of this paper is to test whether or not a temporary help service (THS) job benefits workers in Japan. By … a quick way to make a living for up to two years. We conclude that THS work in Japan has provided a means to obtaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009425164
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Appraising the unhappiness due to the Great East Japan Earthquake : evidence from weekly panel data on subjective well-being
Ōtake, Fumio; Yamada, Katsunori - 2013
qualified beneficiaries for policy compensation in terms of psychological suffering. Building on the case of Great East Japan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009766159
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Corporate sports activity and work morale : evidence from a Japanese automobile maker
Sasaki, Masaru; Ōtake, Fumio - 2013
This paper estimates the factors affecting the relationship between the wins and losses of corporate sports club teams and the work morale of employees, using an original survey of employees from a selected Japanese automobile maker. We find that corporate sports club teams' performance is an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228779
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The long-term impact of the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on wage distribution
Ōtake, Fumio; Okuyama, Naoko; Sasaki, Masaru; Yasui, Kengo - 2014
This paper explores the effects of the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on the wages of people in the area of the earthquake over the 17 years after its occurrence and identified which part of the wage distribution has been most affected by this event by comparing the wage distributions of disaster...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339189
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The long-term impact of the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on wage distribution
Ōtake, Fumio; Okuyama, Naoko; Sasaki, Masaru; Yasui, Kengo - 2014
This paper explores the effects of the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on the wages of people in the area of the earthquake over the 17 years after its occurrence and identified which part of the wage distribution has been most affected by this event by comparing the wage distributions of disaster...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010345538