This paper uses micro data from the Basic Survey of Japanese Business Structure and Activity to analyze the effects of companies' introduction of information and telecommunications technology on employment structures, especially regular versus non-regular employment. Firstly, examination of...

The issue of how companies can overcome barriers to switching from existing to new technologies is crucial from both practical and theoretical points of view. Generally, discarding successful existing technology and making the shift to new technology involves some very serious management...

The purpose of this paper is to elucidate a method for constructing a small-scale policy evaluation model that is applicable to assessing actual policies. The approach adopted in the paper is to construct a perfectly consistent small-scale model adopting the user-friendly CES function, while...

With respect to the management of local public corporations, there are many problems, including a generally lower business efficiency compared with private companies and the constant dependence on subsidies from local governments. Meanwhile, local governments are implementing various measures to...

This paper analyzes the roles played by IT innovation and productivity in Japanese economic growth based on growth factor analysis (from 1975 to 2007) in a macroeconomic context. It also measures the impact of innovation in semiconductors-the source of IT innovation symbolized by Moore's Law....

With the globalization of economic and financial transactions, there has been a conspicuous rise in recent years in the use of a scheme called "aggressive tax planning." Against this backdrop, how to ensure tax compliance to address this disturbing trend has become a major issue of international...

In the case of public servants, a clear distinction is made between regular days off (Saturdays and Sundays) and public holidays (national holidays and the New Year holiday) and these holidays which are designated as days "when attendance is not required even during regular working hours," are...

This paper empirically analyzes the relationship between the instability of firm performance and the use of atypical employees, such as part-time and temporary workers, by using the panel data of more than 8,000 firms from 1994 to 2006. Globalization and innovation are highlighted as the forces...

This paper empirically quantifies the effect of data availability on firm-level working hours of part-timers on the accuracy of productivity measurement using data from the Basic Survey of Japanese Business Structure and Activities. According to the analysis: (1) firm-level working hours of...

This paper analyzes changes in corporate performance pre-and post-merger, using a database of 1,590 corporate mergers (including unlisted companies), which took place between 1994 and 2002. The database was created using RECOF Corporation's M&A data and firm-level data from the Basic Survey of...