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Modeling eldercare by children and children-in-law : the role of marriage institutions
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2017
Informal eldercare is often supplied by family members, more so in Asia than in the West. Children and their parents as well as members of adjacent generations linked by marriage (in-laws) are modeled as self-interested agents offering or responding to material incentives. A first implication...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011665947
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The economic burden of chronic diseases : estimates and projections for China, Japan and South Korea
Bloom, David E.; Chen, Simiao; Kuhn, Michael; McGovern, … - 2017
China, Japan, and South Korea, and estimate the economic burden of chronic conditions in five domains (cardiovascular … non-communicable diseases over the period 2010-2030 are $16 trillion for China (measured in real USD with the base year …-effectiveness analysis by identifying some intervention strategies to reduce disease prevalence in China that are cost beneficial and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704338
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The Economic Burden of Chronic Diseases : Estimates and Projections for China, Japan and South Korea
Bloom, David E. - 2017
China, Japan, and South Korea, and estimate the economic burden of chronic conditions in five domains (cardiovascular … non-communicable diseases over the period 2010-2030 are $16 trillion for China (measured in real USD with the base year …-effectiveness analysis by identifying some intervention strategies to reduce disease prevalence in China that are cost beneficial and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950906
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The economic burden of chronic diseases : estimates and projections for China, Japan, and South Korea
Bloom, David E.; Chen, Simiao; Kuhn, Michael; McGovern, … - 2017
China, Japan, and South Korea, and estimate the economic burden of chronic conditions in five domains (cardiovascular … non-communicable diseases over the period 2010-2030 are $16 trillion for China (measured in real USD with the base year …-effectiveness analysis by identifying some intervention strategies to reduce disease prevalence in China that are cost beneficial and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653537
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Effects of mandatory residencies on female physicians' specialty choices' : evidence from Japan's New Medical Residency Program
Okumura, Tsunao; Ueno, Yuko; Usui, Emiko - 2024
Female physicians remain underrepresented in surgical specialties in Japan. The 2004 New Postgraduate Medical Education Program mandated a two-year rotating residency that allowed residents to choose their specialty after training in multiple fields, including surgery. Following this reform,...
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Labor-market attachment and training participation
Ikenaga, Toshie; Kawaguchi, Daiji - 2010
participation in employer-initiated training. These two attachment indices explain almost half of the gender gap in training …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272651
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Are sons and daughters substitutable? : a study of intra-household allocation of resources in contemporary Japan
Ono, Hiroshi - 2000 - Version: February 2003
Gender inequality in educational attainment remains a salient feature of contemporary Japanese society. This inequality … gender gap in the university advancement rate in Japan stems in part from differences in how parents allocate resources … within the household depending on the gender of their children. From the individuals' perspective, the gender composition of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009502713
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Labor-Market Attachment and Training Participation
Ikenaga, Toshie; Kawaguchi, Daiji - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
participation in employer-initiated training. These two attachment indices explain almost half of the gender gap in training …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548719
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Mobility, Productivity and Patent Value for Asian Prolific Inventors : China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan, 1975-2010
Latham, William R. - 2012
inventors in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. We analyse patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to thousands of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100298
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Human Capital's Contribution to Japan's Lost Decades
Breton, Theodore - UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT - 2013
find that each additional year of average schooling attainment during this period raised GDP/adult in Japan by 20 percent … investment from physical capital to post-secondary schooling would be a cost-effective strategy to raise growth rates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010827911