Wage inequality between individuals has changed little in Japan in recent times unlike in other developed countries. We examine changes in wage inequality within and between establishments during the prolonged stagnation period in Japan. Using a micro-level worker-establishment dataset from 1991...

Wage inequality between individuals has changed little in Japan in recent times unlike in other developed countries. We examine changes in wage inequality within and between establishments during the prolonged stagnation period in Japan. Using a micro-level worker–establishment dataset from...

This study examines whether individuals' time preferences are affected by the damage resulting from the tsunami in the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, using panel surveys before and after the earthquake. When the change in time preferences is measured using the (â, ä) model, I find that...

This paper examines why Japanese labor share is falling recently usingBasic Survey of Japanese Business Structure and Activities which has awealth of information of detailed offshoring information. The results canbe summarized as follows. First, not all the firms uniformly decrease theirlabor...

This paper analyzes labor supply behaviour for Japanese married men and women taking account for their joint decision. The estimation results by simultaneous tobit implies that Japanese wives reduce their labor supply when husbands increase their labor supply while husbands do not change their...

This paper tests whether wages in Japanese Labor market are determined by current labor market condition or by past labor market conditions. following Beaudry and DiNardo (1991) which analyze U.S males. In contrast to previous findings for Canada and the U.S., implicit contract models with...

This paper examines the link between crime and labor market opportunities in Japan. To examine the link, this paper estimates the crime supply function, introduced by Becker (1968), using Japanese Prefectural Panel data. The empirical results demonstrate that not whole labor market conditions...

We show evidence that receiving Japan's Akutagawa and Naoki Prizes for literature has positive and negative effects on their recipients' longevity. Using a dataset covering both awards, we show that recipients of the Akutagawa Prize for rising novelists exhibit lower mortality than fellow...