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

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The recall and new job search of laid-off workers : a bivariate proportional hazard model with unobserved heterogeneity

Fallick, Bruce (contributor); Ryu, Keunkwan (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Workers who lose their jobs can become re-employed either by being recalled to their previous employers or by finding new jobs. Workers’ chances for recall should influence their job search strategies, so the rates of exit from unemployment by these two routes should be directly related. We...

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A four country comparison of spite, cooperation and errors in voluntary contribution mechanisms

Brandts, Jordi (contributor); Saijō, Tatsuyoshi (contributor) - 2000 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. The same experimental design was used in the four countries. Our 'contribution …

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Financial distress and corporate investment : the Japanese case in the 90s

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

We examine quantitatively the extent to which financial distress in the 90s affected Japanese corporate investment. Based on the firm-level data that includes small, unlisted firms, we estimate investment function to measure the impact of financial distress on investment. We find that the...

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An empirical study of alcoholic consumption and labor productivity in Japan

Satō, Masayoshi (contributor); Ōkusa, Yasushi (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

confirmed. Moreover, an awareness of appropriate alcohol consumption supports the sixth strategy of the Health Japan 21 policy … ; Income Effect ; Health Promotion Policy ; Health Japan 21 ; Policy Evaluation …

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Updated horizontal inequity in health care utilization in Japan : comparisons with OECD countries using an original survey

Ōkusa, Yasushi (contributor); Honda, Chika (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

We compare health care inequity in Japan with that in other OECD countries in 2002 and 2003. To overcome Japanese data … health care inequity for Japan. We test the utilization measure by the number of outpatients, the number of days of inpatient … utilization, but out-ofpocket payments show significant pro-rich inequity. -- Horizontal Inequity ; Japan ; International …

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Programme evaluation of unemployment benefits in Japan : an average treatment effect approach

Ōkusa, Yasushi (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Empirical results show that unemployment benefits (UB) recipients significantly change to worse job conditions with respect to wages and firm size, but change to better job conditions with respect to occupation, position, industry, and residence. While the effects for occupation are not...

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Intra-family transfers in Japan : intergenerational co-residence, distance, and contact

Yamada, Ken (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Classified broadly, two motives for intra-family transfers exist: altruism and selfishness. This paper examines two selfish hypotheses − the exchange motive (strategic bequest motive)and the demonstration effect − using a new Japanese micro data set. My analysis of the determinants of...

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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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