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Gender wage gap and its effect on test scores of immigrant students

Yamamura, Eiji - 2016

This paper examines how gender equality influences difference in cognitive skills between genders. For closer examination of Guiso et al. (2008), restricting the sample to immigrant allows us to reduce the possibility of reverse causality. Key findings obtained through regression estimation are:...

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Gender Wage Gap and Its Effect on Test Scores of Immigrant Students

Yamamura, Eiji - 2016

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Perceived consequences of immigration in Japan depend upon frequency of contact with foreigners

Yamamura, Eiji - In: The Japanese economy : translations and studies 39 (2012) 2, pp. 37-48

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Identity, Nostalgia and Happiness among Migrants: The Case of the Kōshien High School Baseball Tournament in Japan

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

residents of large cities and not for other areas. (3) For migrants who had moved from rural to urban areas, the effect of their … significant in cases where the cultural climate of the host area differed from that of the migrant’s home area. The findings of … high school baseball on happiness. Further, nostalgia for home influences migrants’ happiness, and this influence is …

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Comparison of neighborhood trust between generations in a racially homogeneous society: A case study from Japan.

Yamamura, Eiji - 2008

Using Japanese prefecture-level data for the years 1979 and 1996, I explore the extent to which inequality, age heterogeneity, and human capital have an effect upon neighborhood trust, which is ordinarily considered as a kind of particularized trust. The major findings are as follows: (1) Income...

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Differences of the effects of social capital on health status among residents: evidence from modern Japan.

Yamamura, Eiji - 2009

This paper aims to explore how social capital is related to self-rated health status in Japan and how this relationship depends on the extent to which a person is embedded into community. The study used data from 3 079 adult participants in the 2000 Social Policy and Social Consciousness (SPSC)...

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Why effects of social capital on health status differ between genders: considering the labor market condition

Yamamura, Eiji - 2009

This paper explores how social capital is related with self-rated health status in Japan and how this relationship is affected by gender, using data for 3075 adult participants in the 2000 Social Policy and Social Consciousness (SPSC) survey. Controlling for endogenous bias, unobserved city...

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How are social ties formed? : Interaction of neighborhood and individual immobility.

Yamamura, Eiji - 2009

Using individual data from Japan, this paper investigates how a neighbor’s immobility is associated with individual investment in social capital. It is found that local homeownership has a positive effect on individual investment and that this effect for individual homeowners is about 2.5...

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Government size and trust

Yamamura, Eiji - 2010

This paper uses individual level data (the Japanese General Social Survey, 2001) to examine how government size influences generalized trust. After controlling for income inequality, population mobility, city size and various individual characteristics, I found: (1) Using all samples, government...

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The effects of the social norm on cigarette consumption: evidence from Japan using panel data

Yamamura, Eiji - 2010

Using Japan’s prefecture-level panel data from 1989-2001, this paper examines the influence of the social norm on a person’s smoking behavior when the complementary relationship between smoking and drinking is taken into account. The key findings through a dynamic panel model controlling for...

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