While work styles and preferences of workers in Japan are diversified, the conventional labor policy cannot cope fully with the issues from the diversification. To clarify the issues, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) conducted an online survey. In this paper, we analyzed...

We investigate workers' responses to and evaluation of the change in the Labor Contract Act in 2013 through the result of a web survey conducted by the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI). The revised Labor Contract Act (i) stipulates that temporary workers, after five...

This paper surveys theoretical and empirical research on the effects of minimum wages in Japan and overseas and provides some implication for Japan's minimum wage policy.The debate over the minimum wage policy is often judged by its disemployment effect. In Japan, literature employing large...

In this paper, we examine the effects of family background during childhood and non-cognitive ability on future outcomes such as educational attainment, employment status, and wages.The results show that the home environment during childhood has a positive effect on educational attainment, but...

This paper examines the effect of negative demand shocks on the labor composition of firms, focusing on the change in the ratio of temporary agency workers to all workers.To distinguish a causal link from product demands to employee composition from the reverse causation, we used the global...

Recent developments in empirical studies have shown that an increase in minimum wages has a non-negative overall employment effect, which is inconsistent with the prediction generated by the textbook competitive labor market model. This paper examines the mechanism that explicitly explains this...

We analyze the characteristics of Japanese firms that introduced antitakeover provisions after the official guidelines for antitakeover provisions were released in 2005. Our main results are the following. First, firms' operating performance or stock market valuations were not related to the...

We investigate the international transmission of the credit crisis triggered by the Lehman default in September 2008 using Japan's stock market data. Using cumulative returns (CR) during the crisis, starting from the day of Lehman's default and lasting until the day prior to the news of the TARP...

Using the results of our Internet survey, this paper investigates the determinants of happiness for Japanese non-regular workers, and also discusses policy implications for improving workers' well-being. Taking advantage of our rich dataset, we carefully distinguish the characteristics of...

The aim of this paper is to provide a preliminary test of whether or not temporary help service (THS) work benefits workers in Japan. By applying the simple ATT (average treatment effect on the treated) method to Japanese survey data, we obtained two tentative findings.First, we cannot deny the...