Both Japan and Korea are trying to boost female labor force participation (FLFP) as they face the challenges of a … tend to reduce the proportion of regular female employment in Japan and Korea, (ii) the persistent gender wage gap … fertility, and (iv) there is a need for more public spending on childcare for age 6-11 in Japan and Korea to help women continue …

This paper draws out the parallels between Korea and Japan in terms of demographics, potential growth, balance sheets …, asset prices and inflation. Korea's demographic trends seem to track Japan's with a lag of about 20 years. Low productivity … reforms. While Korea's corporate balance sheets are stronger than Japan's in the early 1990s, Korea needs to progress with the …

decline in the value of the Japanese Yen. What would be the implications for Japan and Korea’s exporters if the weak Yen is …Three years have passed since the Bank of Japan’s asset purchase program was introduced in 2011, causing a sharp … shocks. We find that if the weak Yen persists, it would strengthen Japan’s price competitiveness over time as export prices …

also uses actual trade data between Japan and Indonesia and between Japan and Korea …

liquidity risk. We find that, during Japan''s deflationary period, firms with more liquid balance sheets were less exposed to …

financial markets and spillovers from Europe to Japan. The results also suggest that the uncertainty about the direction of …