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Measurements of Skill and Skill-Use Using PIAAC
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Toriyabe, Takahiro - 2022
We develop new indices of skill and skill use, drawing on the alley of skill and skill-use questions in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). We demonstrate that the proposed skill and skill use indices explain the wage gap between males and females, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351716
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Measurements of skill and skill-use using PIAAC
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Toriyabe, Takahiro - 2022
We develop new indices of skill and skill use, drawing on the alley of skill and skill-use questions in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). We demonstrate that the proposed skill and skill use indices explain the wage gap between males and females, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013171192
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Measurements of Skill and Skill-Use Using PIAAC
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Toriyabe, Takahiro - 2022
We develop new indices of skill and skill use, drawing on the alley of skill and skill-use questions in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). We demonstrate that the proposed skill and skill use indices explain the wage gap between males and females, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030827
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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