The aim of this paper is to test whether or not a temporary help service (THS) job benefits workers in Japan. By applying the average treatment effect on the treated estimation and its sensitivity tests to the Japanese survey data, we obtained the following findings. First, we observed no...

This paper estimates the causal effect of public capital stock on Production, using Japanese prefectural data. We first articulate the difficulty of consistently estimating the regional-level production function with public capital that results from the endogeneity of the public capital stock...

This paper considers the demand for job training and its interaction with organization adjustments through rotation within a team and relocation across teams in response to demand and supply shocks. We employ original survey data from two Japanese automobile makers. The analysis includes...

Using the Japanese Survey of Living Preferences and Satisfaction, we examine the gender wage gap by performance-pay group across the whole earnings distribution in Japan. The main finding is that a sharp acceleration of the gap at the top is not observed in Japan when we use a sample of all...

Temporary agency work (TAW) is believed to facilitate matching between firms and job searchers, which results in shortening the unemployment and job search duration. On the other hand, as firms hiring temporary workers have less incentive to train them, it is difficult for low-skilled temporary...