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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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

the impact on part-time workers for all age groups. Earnings test in Japan is, therefore, more effective on full …