Although greater longevity is coupled with a lower birthrate as one of the major causes of Japan's aging population, when it comes to factors influencing pension financing, longevity has not attracted as much attention as the birthrate. This paper quantitatively evaluates the impact of greater...

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As a result of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's 2004 Actuarial Valuation of Public Pension Plans and its provisional estimates released in February 2007 it became widely recognized that the stability of pension finance was heavily dependent not only on population decline but also on...

In this paper we discuss the impact of potential proposed revisions to the survivors' pension system on the stability of pension finance and on intergenerational and intragenerational equitability. The three proposals we study are: (1) the proposal that the survivors' pension benefit be reduced...

This paper looks into the intermingling of the self insurance and public assistance principles in Japan's government-sponsored pension system that has been eroding public trust in the system. Using a newly developed pension funding model (the RIETI model), we analyze options for reforms...

This paper discusses factors that relate to the age of valid standards. Unlike patents and copyrights, standards are created without a fixed effective time set by law. A linked dataset is first prepared by connecting the technology categories of the Japanese Industrial Standards—the de jure...

This study investigates the effect of a negative demand shock on the composition of the type of workers at firms, focusing on the change in the share of temporary agency in all workers. To clearly identify the causal link between the demand a firm faces and the composition of its workforce in...

The concept of "exorbitant privilege" has received great attention from policy makers as well as academics worldwide. The idea originally referred to the willingness of foreigners to hold large quantities of US government debt at extremely low interest rates, due to the dollar's world reserve...

Bloom and Van Reenen (2007) show that differences in management practices are correlated with productivity differences at the firm level. In this paper, we conducted similar interview surveys on management practices in Japanese and Korean firms in 2008 and 2012. We find that overall management...

This paper examines the extent to which a firm's management practices are valued in the marketplace using the interview survey data which are comparable with that in Bloom and Van Reenen (2007). Kawakami and Asaba (2013) use the same interview data and find that among various management...