remarriage market in Japan than the market in the USA. Children structure additional constraints for divorced Japanese women …The context surrounding the poor economic situation of divorced Japanese women, who are the primary recipients of … Panel Study of Income Dynamics reveal that divorced Japanese women experience a number of labour market and non …

women from working overtime exceeding two hours a day; six hours a week; and 150 hours a year. The 1985 amendments exempted … a variety of occupations and industries from such overtime restriction on women. We first define "jobs" using an … exempt from the overtime restriction on women by the 1985 amendments. Applying a difference-in-difference model to census …

This paper provides novel evidence on the effect of deregulating overtime hours restrictions on women by using the 1985 … Amendments to the Labour Standards Act (LSA) in Japan as a natural experiment. The original LSA of 1947 prohibited women from … occupations and industries from such an overtime restriction on women. Applying a difference‐in‐difference model to census data …