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 …

In this paper, we attempt to resolve the drawbacks in previous studies of the labor supply of women in Japan. We … women by using the 1980 Population Census data for Japan.The major finding is that there is a clear difference in the labor … implementation, giving special attention to the specific characteristics of the labor market of women in Japan would be useful and …

Previous studies of female labor force participation in Japan often show that the estimates of female wage rates are … interdependency between married women's decisions to work as part-time employees and their fertility in urban Japan …

Japan in past decades. Relative to empirical studies of a traditional single equation on female labor supply, there exist … fertility behaviors in urban Japan. Using the recently published 1980 Population Census of Japan, we have estimated a … simultaneous-equation model of married women's labor force participation and fertility in urban Japan. Our model shows very …

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 …

elderly patients in the context of the initiative taken by the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan to discourage lengthy … hospital treatment and/or stay by elderly patients. By using three leading diseases among the elderly in Japan (cancer, heart …

-market time allocation in Japan and that to be found in the U.S …

results of this study also show that R&D in Japan is significantly important for aiming not only at the improvement of product …