The Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Reactor Accident in March 2011 caused radioactive pollution problems of various agricultural, forestry and fishery products in nearby Prefectures and government of Japan took production and shipment stoppage order for these products immediately. More than two...

It is frequently argued that the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program works not only as a "remedial device" for compensating losers from trade liberalization, but also as a "political device" for easing protectionist pressure and materializing further liberalization. This paper presents new...

This paper investigates whether or not (i) the decline in consumption after retirement is only from "work related expenses" and "food consumption," and (ii) even though food spending at home and that outside the home decline after retirement, actual food intake remains constant, as Hurst (2008)...

This paper examines the effect of negative demand shocks on the labor composition of firms, focusing on the change in the ratio of temporary agency workers to all workers.To distinguish a causal link from product demands to employee composition from the reverse causation, we used the global...

In the 1980s, the problems of structural unemployment and high unemployment among the youth intensified in the United States and the United Kingdom. As countermeasures to those problems, a series of new policies—such as the "flexibilization" of the labor market, relaxation of the labor law and...

Research in psychology and neuroscience has shown that negative emotions such as depression and anxiety lead to pessimistic risk estimates, while positive emotions such as happiness lead to optimistic risk estimates. We examined whether such trend is observed in the relationship between emotions...

This paper describes the construction of the Regional-Level Japan Industrial Productivity Database (R-JIP), which covers the period from 1970 through 2008 and comprises annual industrial output and factor input data of Japan's 47 prefectures classified by 23 industry. Output is measured in terms...

The primary role of the labour law has been viewed traditionally as addressing the unequal bargaining power between employers and employees focusing on standard employment contracts. The rapid and continuous increase in non-standard employment, however, made many labour scholars reconsider the...

We conducted an inventor survey to examine the contribution of science to corporate inventions. The survey results show that for about one-quarter of the inventions, scientific knowledge embodied in literature, equipment, or research materials in the last 15 years was essential to conceive or...

The greatest feature of the Chinese economy since the launch of its reform and open-door policies is that its economic resources, including human resources, goods, and capital, have become truly liquid nationwide under a market economy for the first time in the history of Chinese economic...