This paper examines whether overtime regulations have a significant impact on the hours worked and hourly wages, by focusing on so-called name-only managers in Japan. The term name-only manager refers to an employee who has essentially the same job description as other employees, but who is...

This paper examines the impact of overtime regulations on the hours worked and the hourly wages of Japanese white-collar employees. In Japan, managers with the title of section chief and higher are exempt from overtime regulations, like the white-collar exemption in the U.S. Recently in Japan,...

This paper overviews the situation of female employment in listed Japanese companies using firm-level panel data after the 2000s, and demonstrates whether those companies utilizing female employment earn higher profits. The estimation results of fixed effect models show that a higher female...

This paper examines the kind of company which utilizes female employees using panel data of Japanese companies. It is shown that companies with shorter work hours for typical regular employees, higher turnover rates, less steep wage curves and larger wage dispersion, and better work-life balance...

Using workers' longitudinal data, this paper investigates the relationship between long work hours and workers' mental health. The number of workers suffering from mental disorders has increased significantly in this decade, and many believe that overwork is the primary reason for deterioration...

Using firms' longitudinal data, this paper investigates the relationship among workers' mental health, firms' profit and productivity, and preventive measures at the workplace. In Japan, the number of workers suffering from mental disorders has grown significantly in this decade. From the advice...

This paper examines how firm practices that could contribute to worker attainment of work-life balance (WLB) affect the total factor productivity (TFP) of a firm, by using panel data of Japanese firms from the 1990s. We observed a positive correlation between the WLB practices and TFP among...

In Japan, managers with the title of section chief and higher are exempt from an overtime regulation that requires employers to pay an overtime premium of 25 percent to hours worked above statutory work hours. Recently, there has been a series of discussions whether or not the range of the...

This paper investigates the compensating wages hypothesis for work-life practices, by examining how workers' wages are lowered when work-life balance practices are introduced into the workplace. Two types of data, observed and hypothetical one, reveal the following. First, we find a negative...

Using information on Japanese, UK, and German workers' work hour and matched firms' characteristics, this paper investigates whether the number of hours worked is determined by demand-side factors, and tries to introduce one possibility to explain why Japanese tend to work longer hours than...