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English as a gateway? Immigration and public opinion in Japan
Green, David; Kadoya, Yoshihiko - 2013
immigration to help fight these tendencies, immigration levels in Japan are comparatively much lower. Increasing immigration to … immigration in Japan is surprisingly rare. Rather, public opposition to immigration is often unquestioningly taken as a given … on immigration at the national and regional levels, considering factors that can influence respondents' perceptions. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332492
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Education and pro-family altruistic discrimination against foreigners: Five-country comparisons
Sasaki, Shusaku; Okuyama, Naoko; Ogaki, Masao; Ohtake, Fumio - 2017
We measure differences between altruism toward a family member and toward an unknown foreigner using hypothetical questions in internet surveys across five countries: Germany, the US, Singapore, South Korea, and Japan. Our analysis shows that people in all five countries exhibit greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012013670
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Immigration and secular stagnation
Miyagiwa, Kazuyuki; Ono, Yoshiyasu - 2019
We examine the effect of immigration on the host country in the dynamic model that can deal with secular unemployment …. Immigration has contrasting effects, depending on the economic state of the host country. If there is unemployment, immigration … worsens unemployment and decreases consumption by native residents whereas if full employment prevails, immigration has the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430008
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English as a Gateway? Immigration and Public Opinion in Japan
Green, David; Kadoya, Yoshihiko - 2013
immigration to help fight these tendencies, immigration levels in Japan are comparatively much lower. Increasing immigration to … immigration in Japan is surprisingly rare. Rather, public opposition to immigration is often unquestioningly taken as a given … on immigration at the national and regional levels, considering factors that can influence respondents’ perceptions. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014154009
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Long-term effect of international trade on the gender wage and educational gaps
Yamamura, Eiji - 2016
This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and educational attainment as of 2011 but did not influence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011564944
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Long-Term Effect of International Trade on the Gender Wage and Educational Gaps
Yamamura, Eiji - 2016
This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and educational attainment as of 2011 but did not influence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014035163
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Fair reallocation in economies with single-peaked preferences
Hashimoto, Kazuhiko; Wakayama, Takuma - 2015
We consider the problem of fairly reallocating the individual endowments of a perfectly divisible good among agents with single-peaked preferences. We provide a new concept of fairness, called position-wise envy-freeness, that is compatible with individual rationality. This new concept requires...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421471
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Characterizing minimal impartial rules for awarding prizes
Tamura, Shohei - 2015
We study the problem of choosing prize winners from among a group of experts when each expert nominates another expert for the prize. A nomination rule determines the set of winners on the basis of the profile of nominations; the rule is impartial if one's nomination never influences one's own...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421479
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Strategy-proof rule in probabilistic allocation problem of an indivisible good and money
Hashimoto, Kazuhiko - 2015
We consider the problem of probabilistically allocating a single indivisible good among agents when monetary transfers are allowed. We construct a new strategy-proof rule, called the second price trading rule, and show that it is second best efficient. Furthermore, we give the second price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421481
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Pairwise partition graphs and strategy-proof social choice in the exogenous indifference class model
Pramanik, Anup; Sen, Arunava - 2014
In this paper we consider the exogenous indifference classes model of Barberá and Ehlers (2011) and Sato (2009) and analyze further the relationship between the structure of indifference classes across agents and dictatorship results. The key to our approach is the pairwise partition graph. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421486