been affected across six countries (China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, UK and US). We first document changes in income …

China, Japan, and South Korea, and estimate the economic burden of chronic conditions in five domains (cardiovascular … non-communicable diseases over the period 2010-2030 are $16 trillion for China (measured in real USD with the base year … 2010), $5.7 trillion for Japan, and $1.5 trillion for South Korea. Our results also highlight the limits of cost …

.g., gender, ethnicity) has a much greater impact on immigrant wages in Japan than in the United States. Although the use of … Hamamatsu, whereas it is negative in San Diego. The paper draws on data from ethnographic studies in Japan and California to …

Using data for the 1990's, this paper examines the role of sheepskin effects in the returns to education for Japan. Our … the US. These results could be explained by the particular recruitment system of large firms in Japan, which makes the …

This paper uses unique firm-level panel data from Japan and provides new evidence on the possible impact on gender …

constructing synthetic control groups, we show that the "Big Bang"-deregulations in the United Kingdom in 1986 and Japan 1997 …-1999 increased the share of pre-tax incomes going to top earners by over 20 percent in the U.K. and over 10 percent in Japan. The … in Japan. The findings are robust to placebo tests, alternative ways to construct synthetic controls and scrutiny of post …

This paper examines the drivers of the long-run structural transformation in Japan. We use a dynamic input … contributed to the rapid growth of GDP in Japan throughout the 20th century. …

late 1970s and early 1980s. These changes were concurrent with a rapid rise in import competition from Japan. We assess the …