This study takes advantage of micro-level information to make a projection of demand for at-home care services in Japan. We have observed a rapid increase in demand for long-term care services after 2001, a large part of which came from an increase in demand for at-home care services. Thus, an...

This is the first study that uses facility-level data to evaluate the cost efficiency of the child care market in Japan after controlling for quality of services. Japanese households in urban areas suffer from a severe undersupply of child care, and inefficient operation in public centers is...

This study is the first comprehensive empirical assessment on wage determinants of child care workers in Japan. In particular, this paper focuses on the sectoral wage differentials among publicly owned and licensed private facilities and the wage-age profile among different types of management....

Like other developed countries, Japan currently has been experiencing a rapid increase in medical care costs. It is one of imperative interests for the government to find an effective way of balancing the quality and costs of medical care. As of 2003, the Economic and Social Research Institute...

The main object of this study is to investigate how treatment patterns and patient outcomes vary among medical facilities in Japan. We take advantage of a unique survey on 3,502 patients with acute myocardial infarction treated by PTCA (Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty) in 2003....

PART I : Are Nonprofit Earnings Differentials Observed in Japan? Evidence from Micro-level Data in Japanese Nursing Homes This research is the first empirical assessment on the wage differentials between the nonprofit sector and profit sector in Japanese nursing homes, and makes use of the...

This study is a comprehensive empirical assessment on the quality of child care in Japan. Especially we focus on the comparison of quality of services between public and private centers to investigate higher wage costs in public centers could be justified by higher quality of care. Since no...

This paper investigates nonprofit wage premiums in Japan's child care labor market, an area that has not yet been studied. We take advantage of a unique, large, and high-quality data set on child care workers collected in the summer 2002 to evaluate nonprofit wage premiums after controlling for...

After the introduction of public long-term care insurance in 2000, for-profit facilities were allowed to enter the at-home care market in Japan, where nonprofits are dominant. However, according to a popular hypothesis called the "contract failure," nonprofit centers are preferred over...

One of the most important purposes of Japan's introduction of public long-term care insurance in 2000 was to diminish the care burden at home, which traditionally depends heavily on women. This study takes advantage of unique micro-level information to examine whether the care burden has...