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Japanese pharmaceutical market, world’s 2nd largest in size, is traditionally renowned for its brands’ domination and weakest generics share among major established economies. An in depth observation of published evidence in Japanese/English language provided closer insight into current...

Taking advantage of annual panel data on part-time farmer households, this paper investigates whether a retirement consumption puzzle is observed in Japan. Our analysis shows that households’ expenditure does decline after the retirement of the household head and that changes in family size...

We generalize the classical expected-utility criterion by weakening transitivity to Suzumura consistency. In the absence of full transitivity, reflexivity and completeness no longer follow as a consequence of the system of axioms employed and a richer class of rankings of probability...

This study finds a strong and positive correlation between the net job-creation rates of large employers and labor market tightness (i.e., ratio of job offers to job-seekers) in business cycle frequencies in Japan. This correlation is much stronger than that seen among smaller employers, and is...

We employed the Generational Accounting model in estimating the generation-specific lifetime (both past and the future) benefits/burdens and income and evaluating their values as of 2010, thus estimating the lifetime net burden ratio (= lifetime net burden/lifetime income). As a result, the...

Previous studies have shown that workplace social capital (WSC) affects workers' health, but its role as a moderator of the associations between job stressors and health outcomes has been largely understudied. The current study investigated whether and to what extent WSC moderates the...

Previous studies have shown that income inequality in society is negatively associated with individuals’ subjective well-being (SWB), such as their perceived happiness and self-rated health (SRH). However, it is not realistic to assume that individuals have precise information about actual...

The "Family and Lifestyle Survey" is a registered consumer tester-based survey designed to collect information on (1) basic household attributes, education, and employment history; (2) parent household attributes (including education and employment history); (3) household asset holdings...