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 …

competitive firms. The results in our paper suggest that when it comes to TFP growth, this view of Japan is seriously erroneous …. We find that lower tariffs and higher import volumes would have been particularly beneficial for Japan during the period … productivity growth. Our findings on Japan suggest that the salutary impact of imports stems more from their contribution to …

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

. Little attention is paid in Japan to substitution biases and quality upgrading. This implies that important methodological … differences have emerged between the U.S. and Japan since the U.S. started to correct for these biases in 1999. We estimate that … using the new corrected U.S. methodology, Japan's deflation averaged 1.2 percent per year since 1999. This is more than …

We analyze fiscal policy and fiscal sustainability in Japan using a variant of the methodology developed in Blanchard … (1990). We find that Japan can achieve fiscal sustainability over a 100-year horizon with relatively small changes in the …. This means that monetization of the debt will have little impact on Japan's fiscal sustainability because Japan's problem …

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