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Democracy, cognitive skill, and top 1% income share in the 21st century

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

conspicuously in the 21st century. However, there is insufficient knowledge on how political factors and types of human capital …

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Is body mass human capital in sumo? Outcome of globalization and formation of human capital in Japan

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Sumo wrestling is a traditional fighting sport in Japan and has been popular since the 18th century (the Edo period). Using a data set for all sumo wrestlers in the post-World War II period, this paper investigates how wrestlers’ body mass index (BMI) is associated with their win rate and...

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Is body mass human capital in sports? Outcome of globalization of sumo wrestling and generation of human capital in Japan

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Using a data set for all sumo wrestlers in the post-World War II period, this paper investigates how wrestlers’ body mass index (BMI) is associated with wrestlers’ winning rate and absence rate. Further, the effect of BMI is compared between an early period (before the emergence of foreign...

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Emergence of a professional sports league and human capital formation for sports: The Japanese Professional Football League.

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The Japanese Professional Football League (J-league) was established in 1993. Based on individual level data, this study investigated how emergence of the league affected Japanese people playing football using the differences-in-differences method. The following main findings were obtained. (1)...

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An investigation into the positive effect of an educated wife on her husband’s earnings: the case of Japan in the period between 2000 and 2003.

Yamamura, Eiji; Mano, Yukichi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

We analyze the effect of a wife’s human capital on her husband’s earnings, using individual-level data for Japan in the period 2000–2003. We find a positive association between a wife’s education and her husband’s earnings, which can be attributed to the assortative mating effect as...

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The Influence of a wife’s working status on her husband’s accumulation of human capital.

Mano, Yukichi; Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Japanese household-level data describing a husband's earnings, his wife's working status, and their schooling levels are used to test the implications of a model proposing a time-consuming process of human capital accumulation within marriages, in which an educated wife is more productive. The...

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Human Capital Accumulation through Interaction between a Married Couple: Comparison between a Housewife and a Working Wife

Mano, Yukichi; Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

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The Relationship Between the Effects of a Wife’s Education on her Husband’s Earnings and her Labor Participation: Japan in the period 2000 -2003

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We analyze the effect of a wife’s human capital on her husband’s earnings, using individual-level data for Japan in the period 2000?2003. We find a positive association between a wife’s education and her husband’s earnings, which can be attributed to the assortative mating effect as well...

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Eco-Innovation – Does Additional Engagement Lead to Additional Rewards?

Doran, Justin; Ryan, Geraldine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Purpose Eco-innovation is any form of product, process or organisational innovation that contributes towards … sustainable development. Firms can eco-innovate in a variety of ways. In this paper we identify nine different eco-innovation …/ Approach Using data for over 2,000 Irish firms collected in a special module included in the sixth Community Innovation Survey …

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Cross Sectoral Differences in Drivers of Innovation

Doran, Justin; Jordan, Declan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

to innovation classifying firms into four broad sectors. The propensity and drivers of four types of innovation (new to … to firm and new to market innovation, there is a strong degree of heterogeneity in the drivers of innovation across … evidence of differences across sectors in the drivers of innovation. These results have important implications for policy …

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