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What Can Boost Female Labor Force Participation in Asia?
Kinoshita, Yuko - 2015
Both Japan and Korea are trying to boost female labor force participation (FLFP) as they face the challenges of a … Korea to increase FLFP by type (i.e., regular vs. non-regular employment), using the SVAR model. In so doing, we compare … tend to reduce the proportion of regular female employment in Japan and Korea, (ii) the persistent gender wage gap …
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Social capital and the problem of opportunistic leadership : the example of Koreans in Japan
Ramseyer, J. Mark - 2020
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Social capital and the problem of opportunistic leadership : the example of Koreans in Japan
Ramseyer, J. Mark - In: European journal of law and economics 52 (2021) 1, pp. 1-32
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Integration of North and South American Players in Japan's Professional Baseball Leagues Teams in Japan’s two professional baseball leagues began to add foreign players to their ro...
Kawaura, Akihiko; La Croix, Sumner - University of Hawai'i Economic Research Organization … - 2011
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Integration of North and South American Players in Japan's Professional Baseball Leagues
LaCroix, Sumner; Kawaura, Akihiko - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2011
Teams in Japan’s two professional baseball leagues began to add foreign players to their rosters in the early 1950s, with the average number of foreign players per team reaching 5.79 in 2004. One reason for their increased use of foreign players was that foreign hitters substantially...
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Desperately Seeking a Japanese Yokozuna
Brunello, Giorgio; Yamamura, Eiji - 2023
Using data on wrestlers and tournaments since the early 1970s, we study promotion practices in Sumo, a Japanese traditional sport. We show that, especially since 2010, foreign-born wrestlers trying to attain the second highest rank in Sumo were treated less favorably than Japanese born...
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Desperately seeking a Japanese Yokozuna
Brunello, Giorgio; Yamamura, Eiji - 2023
Using data on wrestlers and tournaments since the early 1970s, we study promotion practices in Sumo, a Japanese traditional sport. We show that, especially since 2010, foreign-born wrestlers trying to attain the second highest rank in Sumo were treated less favorably than Japanese born...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014419245
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What Types of Companies Have Female and Foreign Directors?
Morikawa, Masayuki - 2014
This paper analyzes the determinants of the presence and the number of female and foreign directors among Japanese companies. First, listed and long-established companies, subsidiaries, and unionized companies tend not to have female directors. On the other hand, owner-managed companies are...
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What Types of Companies Have Female and Foreign Directors?
Morikawa, Masayuki - 2017
This paper analyzes the determinants of the presence and the number of female and foreign directors among Japanese companies. First, listed and long-established companies, subsidiaries, and unionized companies tend not to have female directors. On the other hand, owner-managed companies are...
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Four Types of Attitudes Towards Foreign Workers : Evidence from a Survey in Japan
Rosenbluth, Frances McCall - 2016
Employing a survey method to explore attitudes towards foreign workers in Japan, we uncover evidence that upends the conventional wisdom that “socio-tropic values” are anchored in perceptions of threat. Building a new typology that differentiates among native-born citizens who value or fear...
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