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Japan and the OECD - a lesson for Romania

Luţan, Iustina - In: Romanian Economic Business Review 2 (2007) 2, pp. 60-66

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is a unique forum where the governments of 30 market democracies work together to address the economic, social and governance challenges of globalisation as well as to exploit its opportunities. One of the most important...

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Decomposing change in life expectancy: a bouquet of formulas in honour of Nathan Keyfitz´s 90th birthday

Vaupel, James W.; Romo, Vladimir Canudas - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2002

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Direct Payments for Environmental Services from Mountain Agriculture in Japan: Evaluating its Effectiveness and Drawing Lessons for Developing Countries

Sakuyama, Takumi - In: The Electronic Journal of Agricultural and Development … 3 (2006) 1, pp. 27-57

Japan. A regression analysis explaining the entry into the program shows that the farm profitability and the production cost …

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Academic Patenting in Japan: Illustration from a Leading Japanese University.

Takahashi, Makiko; Carraz, René - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA), … - 2009

”. This important change in Japan’s research culture has allowed its universities to gain higher control and oversight over …

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Do time-invariant confounders explain away the association between job stress and workers' mental health?: Evidence from Japanese occupational panel data

Oshio, Takashi; Tsutsumi, Akizumi; Inoue, Akiomi - In: Social Science & Medicine 126 (2015) C, pp. 138-144

It is well known that job stress is negatively related to workers' mental health, but most recent studies have not controlled for unobserved time-invariant confounders. In the current study, we attempted to validate previous observations on the association between job stress and workers' mental...

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Are neighborhood bonding and bridging social capital protective against depressive mood in old age? A multilevel analysis in Japan

Murayama, Hiroshi; Nofuji, Yu; Matsuo, Eri; Nishi, Mariko; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 124 (2015) C, pp. 171-179

city of Yabu, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan was conducted in July and August 2012. Bonding and bridging social capital were …

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Explaining inflation in the period of quantitative easing in Japan: Relative-price changes, aggregate demand, and monetary policy

Hayo, Bernd; Ono, Hiroyuki - In: Journal of Asian Economics 36 (2015) C, pp. 72-85

Concentrating on the period of quantitative easing in Japan, this paper reexamines the correlation between the …/deflation period in Japan can be understood as primarily a supply-side phenomenon and suggest that the main driving force was demand …

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Assessment of development potential of ground-coupled heat pump system in Tsugaru Plain, Japan

Shrestha, Gaurav; Uchida, Youhei; Yoshioka, Mayumi; … - In: Renewable Energy 76 (2015) C, pp. 249-257

Assessment of potential use of ground-coupled heat pump (GCHP) system in regional scale is important to promote its growth. Groundwater flow system and subsurface temperature distribution of Tsugaru Plain were comprehended by developing 3D numerical model. In absence of measured hydrological and...

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Review of energy and climate policy developments in Japan before and after Fukushima

Kuramochi, Takeshi - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 43 (2015) C, pp. 1320-1332

In 2009, Japan pledged to reduce its GHG emissions by 25% from 1990 levels by 2020 (“Copenhagen Pledge”). The … after the Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011. This paper conducted a comprehensive review of Japan’s recent energy and … climate policy developments since 2009 and particularly after March 2011 to assess where Japan stands today with regard to the …

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Economic performance and supply chains: The impact of upstream firms׳ waste output on downstream firms׳ performance in Japan

Hayami, Hitoshi; Nakamura, Masao; Nakamura, Alice O. - In: International Journal of Production Economics 160 (2015) C, pp. 47-65

of manufacturing industries in Japan. One key finding is that assembler dominated manufacturing supply chains have … that for manufacturing supply chains in Japan at least, the adoption by a downstream assembler of green procurement …

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