incentive mechanism of the public pension system in Japan affecting the retirement behavior has many things in common with those …

This study examined the factors that affect the retirement decisions of the middle-aged and elderly in Japan, focusing … Japan--where being enrolled in the disability program is unlikely to make one a candidate for the retirement path …

This paper presents evidence about the coats of corporate capital in Japan and the US, for a sample of large companies …, and evaluates a variety of hypotheses about why the cost might be lower in Japan.We find that the before-tax return to … capital in Japan appears slightly lower than in the U.S. when corrected book measures of earnings are used, but that this …

of social security and its related programs in Japan since the 1980s. We compute the tax force to retire early, using the …

implications of our analysis on the social security reform debate in Japan, including the fixed tax method and the use of the trust …

The value of corporate equity in Japan is dramatically smaller than that implied by the sum of the reproduction cost of …

countries such as the US, Canada, and Japan. Attempts are made to carry out the measurement based both on the accounting records … equal to or somewhat lower than that in the US For Japan, the individual company accounts and National Accounts data yield …

A dynamic model of the demographic structure of Japan is summarized. It is capable of tracing the dynamic development … Japan will increase slightly in the immediate future as the number of children per family declines sharply, and then fall …, unless some major changes in Japanese saving behavior take place, our analysis suggests that Japan will have an unusually …