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Analysis of age discrimination in the rental housing market in Japan : an approach using a fair housing audit

Nakagawa, Masayuki (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

A fair housing audit is an important tool for measuring racial and ethnic discrimination in housing market, so they are widely used for policy purposes in the U.S. Each audit consists of a visit to a real estate agent by a minority individual and a majority individual with equal qualification....

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Why is there discrimination against the elderly? : Experimental and empirical analyses for the rental housing market in Japan

Nakagawa, Masayuki (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Nakagawa(2001) and Nakagawa(2002) applies a fair housing audit technique to age discrimination in Japanese rental housing market, using data from the 2001 Osaka Audits. However, the experimental design of the study had some problems to be improved, e.g. lacked generality. This paper reports the...

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Does agency cost model explain business fluctuations in Japan? : An empirical attempt to estimate agency cost by firm size

Ogawa, Kazuo (contributor); Uchiyama, Hirokuni (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

firms in Japan. -- Agency cost ; Investment ; Collateral ; Land ; Borrowing ; State space model ; Kalman filter ; Gibbs …

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Debt, R&D investment and technological progress : a panel study of Japanese manufacturing firms in the 90s

Ogawa, Kazuo (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Based on a panel data set of Japanese manufacturing firms in research-intensive industries, we investigate quantitatively the extent to which debt outstandings in the 90s affected the firm’s R&D activities. We find that massive debt outstandings had significantly negative effect on R&D...

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Are the Japanese unique? : An analysis of consumption and saving behavior in Japan

Horioka, Charles (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

In this paper, I conduct an analysis of consumption and saving behavior in Japan, looking both at trends over time and …

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Do the elderly dissave in Japan?

Horioka, Charles (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

In this paper, I summarize Albert Ando’s seminal and ingenious work on the saving behavior of the elderly in Japan and … that the retired elderly in Japan dissave, in accordance with the life cycle hypothesis of saving, and that all of the … available data and evidence suggest that the life cycle hypothesis of saving is highly applicable in the case of Japan. …

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Who supports redistribution?

Ōtake, Fumio (contributor); Tomioka, Jun (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Analysis of Health and Activity Limitation Index (HALex), its distribution, and its distribution by income in Japan, 1989 and 1998

Asada, Yukiko (contributor); Ōkusa, Yasushi (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

study found that between 1989 and 1998 overall in Japan the HALex on average slightly reduced (0.005 reduction), its … than men and in older ages. This analysis shows that the success in the improvement in the length of life in Japan did not …

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Should the coinsurance rate be increased in the case of the common cold? : An analysis based on an original survey

Ōkusa, Yasushi (contributor); Ii, Masako (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This article examines the choice of health care in Japan by patients suffering from the common cold. Original data were …

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Comparison between treatment outcomes in ischaemic heart disease using surveys of medical care in Japan

Watanabe, Rei (contributor); Ōkusa, Yasushi (contributor) - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]

observational data. Method The data used are microdata from Surveys of Medical Care (SMC) in Japan from 1992 to 1998, which are …

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