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The Educational Upgrading of Japanese Youth, 1982-2007: Are All Japanese Youth Ready for Structural Reforms?
Arai, Yoichi; Ichimura, Hidehiko; Kawaguchi, Daiji - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Are all Japanese youth ready for the structural reforms proposed as a supply-side policy of Abenomics? To answer this question, we assess how well Japanese youth have coped with the labor market's long-term structural changes, induced primarily by deepening interdependence with emerging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011195820
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Why Has the Fraction of Contingent Workers Increased? A Case Study of Japan
Asano, Hirokatsu; Ito, Takahiro; Kawaguchi, Daiji - Graduate School for International Development and … - 2011
This paper explains the secular increase of contingent workers in Japan whose share of employment increased from 17 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364575
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The minimum wage in a deflationary economy: The Japanese experience, 1994 - 2003
Kambayashi, Ryo; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Yamada, Ken - 2010
The statutory minimum wage has steadily increased for decades in Japan, while the median wage has fallen nominally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271385
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Labor-market attachment and training participation
Ikenaga, Toshie; Kawaguchi, Daiji - 2010
participation. The results, based on cross-sectional data from Japan, indicate that expected attachment to the labor market affects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272651
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Testing the morale theory of nominal wage rigidity
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Ohtake, Fumio - 2004
workers' income satisfaction and work morale. This paper uses the current deflationary recession in Japan to estimate this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332192
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The productivity of public capital: Evidence from the 1994 electoral reform of Japan
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Ohtake, Fumio; Tamada, Keiko - 2005
across regions in Japan, the stock amount of public capital could be endogenous because it could be allocated to either … public capital investment across regions in order to estimate the causal effect of public capital on production. Japan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332456
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Aggregate impacts of a gift of time
Lee, Jungmin; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011
cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers' overtime costs in Japan around 1990 and Korea in the early 2000s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282259
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Brides for sale: Cross-border marriages and female immigration
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Lee, Soohyung - 2012
from Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286887
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A gift of time
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Lee, Jungmin; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2012
cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers' overtime costs in Japan around 1990 and Korea in the early 2000s … reduction in market time, with the free-up time in Japan reallocated to leisure and personal maintenance, while in Korea the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287669
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The labor market in Japan, 2000-2016
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Mori, Hiroaki - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)
As the third largest economy in the world and a precursor of global trends in population aging, Japan's recent …
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