The aim of this paper is to investigate the conditions under which public investment can be allocated to the infrastructure in material and non-material capital so as to have a positive effect on regional development and interregional inequality. To investigate this issue, the paper focuses on...

In this paper, the authors consider reforming the tax system to a comprehensive income tax model in order to amend the differential treatment of income sources. Their simulation analysis shows that the tax reform improves the effectiveness of the tax system on the redistribution of all sources...

This book provides a comprehensive appraisal of social security in Japan, where traditionally the burden of welfare provision has been the main responsibility of the family and employers, rather than the state. However, an ageing population, changes in family structure and continued recession...

In this paper, we examined the impact of changes in the content of science learning on the formation of personal capacity and on the competitiveness of workers in the labor market, by analyzing data on the incomes of university graduates. In order to analyze the impact of changes in the...

This paper aims to verify how discipline affects a person's value in the labor market by examining the effect of the discipline a person received in his/her childhood on the labor income he/she gets as an adult. The analysis shows that one's value in the labor market is greatly affected by four...

This paper reviews the annual income difference between science graduates and arts graduates by using data from the <i>Japan Household Panel Survey</i> (JHPS) designed by the Keio University Joint Research Center for Panel Studies. The results of the study show that the average annual income of science...

This paper examines all types of admissions systems currently in place in Japan, and evaluates their relative performance in the labor market using graduate income. In particular, by comparing the relative performance of admission systems requiring academic testing against that of those that do...