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Rich and slim, but relatively short Explaining the halt in the secular trend in Japan

Bassino, Jean-Pascal; Kato, Noriko - Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic … - 2010

1980s with average height of around 171 cm for males and 158 cm for females at age 18. Unidentified characteristics in the … countries in combining contrasted health outcomes: a stagnation of height suggests a decline in biological well-being, but this … conditions are unavailable. As a second best, we take advantage of the regional variance in average height and other indicators …

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In Search of the Wellsprings of the Japanese Management : Kamada Issou (1721-1804)

Horide, Ichirou - 2006

This is the third paper of a series of our studies in search of the wellspring of the Japanese management. We examine a traditional Japanese business philosophy focusing on Kamada Issou (1712-1804), and explore its moral implications for modern Japanese management. Ishida Baigan (1685-1744) set...

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In Search of the Wellsprings of the Japanese Management : Teshima Toan (1718-1786)

Horide, Ichirou - 2006

This paper is the second of our research series of the wellspring of the Japanese management. We focus on Teshima Toan (1718-1786), a Japanese moral educator in the 18th century and examine his moral philosophy from a management standpoint. When it comes to SHINGAKU, a kind of Japanese moral...

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The Ethics of Buddhism and the Ethos of the Japanese Management : The Spirit of Ji-Hi

Horide, Ichirou - 2009

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the reasons why most of the Japanese companies have a high regard for employee's competence and don't adopt personnel retrenchment as one of the urgent countermeasures to come out of a business slump. We looked over historical documents about business...

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Geopolitics and Asia's Little Divergence : A Comparative Analysis of State Building in China and Japan after 1850

Koyama, Mark; Moriguchi, Chiaki; Sng, Tuan-Hwee - 2015

We provide a new framework to account for the diverging paths of political development and state building in China and Japan during the second half of the nineteenth century. The arrival of Western powers not only brought opportunities to adopt new technologies, but also fundamentally threatened...

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The hidden curriculum and social preferences

Ito, Takahiro; Kubota, Kohei; Ohtake, Fumio - 2015

This paper examines the effects of school curricula on subsequent preference formation. The estimation results, using Japanese data, show that the actual curriculum at public elementary schools varies widely from area to area and is associated with preference formation. Specifically, pupils who...

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Is the eldest son different? The residential choice of siblings in Japan

Wakabayashi, Midori; Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2006

In this paper, we analyze the determinants of the living arrangements of elderly parents and their children (whether elderly parents live with their children, and if so, with which child) in Japan using micro data from a household survey. We find that the proportion of elderly parents living...

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The politics of neutrality: UNESCO's Social Science Department, 1946-1956

Rangil, Teresa Tomas - 2011

This essay analyzes the construction of "neutral" knowledge by the scholars (mostly psychologists, anthropologists and sociologists) who were members of UNESCO's Social Science Department between 1946 and 1956. Making use of recent literature on the politics of knowledge and using archive...

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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...

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Competitive work environments and social preferences: field experimental evidence from a Japanese fishing community

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Seki, Erika - 2005

Models of job tournaments and competitive workplaces more generally predict that while individual effort may increase as competition intensifies between workers, the incentive for workers to cooperate with each other diminishes. We report on a field experiment conducted with workers from a...

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