This paper examines the association among employment status and attitudes to marriage, family and job focusing on non-regular employees. Data for this paper was compiled through a web-based questionnaire survey, conducted in September and October 2011. Chapter 1 introduces results of the survey;...

The future of Japanese society is going to depend on two trends: the rapid aging of our citizens, which is unprecedented in human history, and something called “individual editorial control”. These trends—like them or not—have permeated deeply into Japan. We need to develop innovative...

Directional analysis is employed to evaluate the rationality and usefulness of a data set of monthly forecasts for the coincident index in ESRI's Indexes of Business Conditions by professional forecasters.　Using Japanese　ESP Forecast Survey data, our findings indicate that consensus...

Taking advantage of annual panel data on farm households collected by the Statistical Survey on Farm Management and Economy, this paper investigates whether a retirement consumption puzzle can be observed in Japan and, given that this is the case, what the reasons are. Our long-run panel data...

This paper evaluates density forecasts using micro data from the ESP forecast (ESPF), a monthly survey of Japanese professional forecasters. The ESPF has collected individual density forecasts since June 2008. We employ two approaches, Probability Integral Transform (PIT) and Ranked Probability...

This paper attempted to measure the causal effect of college quality on individual earnings in subsequent life. If college quality matters, what type of college characteristics might lead to higher labor market premiums? Research conducted in US found a positive and significant labor market...

This paper examines whether consumption reacts to an anticipated income increase arising from the start of pension benefit payments. Using household-level data, the analysis indicates that although consumption increases significantly in the year that pension benefit payouts start, it falls back...

Many people have been skeptical about the economic value of going to graduate school in Japan. However, there are few empirical studies to analyze this issue. This paper estimates the private internal rate of return to postgraduate education and assesses the postgraduate wage premium in Japan....

This paper examines how firms’ decision to start exporting is affected by the availability of information on export markets. Unlike existing studies which focus on information sharing among firms, we are interested in the information provided by firms’ main bank. Specifically, using a unique...

It is generally found that overeducated (undereducated) workers earn less (more) than their correctly placed colleagues and reported that the return to year of overeducation, though positive, is smaller than the return to year of required education. Overeducation (undereducation) refers to the...