China, Japan, and South Korea, and estimate the economic burden of chronic conditions in five domains (cardiovascular … 2010), $5.7 trillion for Japan, and $1.5 trillion for South Korea. Our results also highlight the limits of cost …

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. …

elsewhere, namely, Japan. Since the early 1990s the Japanese government has sought to transform the country into a "lifestyle … ; wage level and structure ; country studies: Japan …

participation. The results, based on cross-sectional data from Japan, indicate that expected attachment to the labor market affects …. -- training ; labor market attachment ; job tenure ; gender ; Japan …

The statutory minimum wage has steadily increased for decades in Japan, while the median wage has fallen nominally …

-term consequences for the labor market structure. To this end, we examine Japan's Lost Decade, the original Great Recession that … during Japan's Lost Decade there was a significant shift of the composition of employment toward "bad jobs." Second, we find … women in Japan made considerable progress in shifting the composition of their employment toward "good jobs" during Japan …

cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers' overtime costs in Japan around 1990 and Korea in the early 2000s …