We have built a quantitative model of the pension, medical care and aged care by improving Suzuki(2006) and estimated intergenerational inequality caused by the social security system. It should be noted that the model be able to reproduce the long-term projection made by the Japanese...

This study is the first comprehensive empirical assessment on wage determinants of child care workers in Japan. In particular, this paper focuses on the sectoral wage differentials among publicly owned and licensed private facilities and the wage-age profile among different types of management....

This paper investigates nonprofit wage premiums in Japan's child care labor market, an area that has not yet been studied. We take advantage of a unique, large, and high-quality data set on child care workers collected in the summer 2002 to evaluate nonprofit wage premiums after controlling for...

This paper evaluates the quality and efficiency of the at-home long-term care market in Japan, a market in which for-profit enterprises were allowed to enter after the introduction of the long-term care insurance in Spring of 2000. We take advantage of data from a unique self-conducted survey to...

This is the first study to take advantage of Japan's public long-term care insurance as a unique and natural experiment to evaluate how outsourcing long-term care spurs female labor supply. We utilize our unusual and rich panel data from households with an elderly person who needs care and who...

This is the first study to take advantage of Japan's public long-term care insurance as a unique and natural experiment to evaluate how outsourcing long-term care spurs female labor supply. We utilize our unusual and rich panel data from households with an elderly person who needs care and who...