In Japan, retirement is a gradual process that transpires over a particularly long period of time. Using large scale …

data from nationwide surveys in Japan. Our multilevel analysis using logit and ordered logit models confirmed that …

struggle. The paper presents the effects of the former crises in the developing countries and in Japan on income distribution …

Japan was hit hard by the global financial crisis even though its relatively resilient financial system initially … real economy. In this environment, Japan was particularly vulnerable because of the structural changes that had taken place … States and Western Europe. <p>The structural changes had two components. First, over 90% of Japan's exports consisted of …

Japan’s Great Recession was the result of a series of macroeconomic and financial policy mistakes. Thus, it was largely … avoidable once the initial shock from the bubble bursting had passed. The aberration in Japan’s recession was not the behaviour … parallels to Japan with far less room for fiscal action to compensate for them than Japan had. Also, Japan did not face poor …

The present paper is aimed to give an analysis of trade ties between the EU and Japan, and to focus on most important … are becoming less and less important in the system of economic relations of the European Union and Japan. Despite the fact … Japan in the aggregate volume of EU’s exports and imports has decreased, and, what is more, the EU has become a less …

comprehensive data of information service industries in Japan. We focus on the degree of modularisation and resulting outsourcing …