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....

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...

This is the first study to take advantage of Japan's public long-term care insurance as a unique and natural experiment to evaluate how outsourcing long-term care spurs female labor supply. We utilize our unusual and rich panel data from households with an elderly person who needs care and who...

This is the first study to take advantage of Japan's public long-term care insurance as a unique and natural experiment to evaluate how outsourcing long-term care spurs female labor supply. We utilize our unusual and rich panel data from households with an elderly person who needs care and who...

We have built a quantitative model of the pension, medical care and aged care by improving Suzuki(2006) and estimated intergenerational inequality caused by the social security system. It should be noted that the model be able to reproduce the long-term projection made by the Japanese...

Exploiting an ideal experiment situation, this paper provides clear evidence of consumption smoothing against an anticipated income change. Until FY2002, Japanese public employees received large and predictable bonus payments three times a year, but the third bonus in March was abolished in...

This paper uses a unique census data on Japanese nursing homes to evaluate the determinants of nursing home exit and the price elasticity of the institutional care. We take two approaches to address these by making use of micro-level data from Kaigo Service Shisetsu Zigyousho Chousa (Survey on...

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...

In March, 1999, the Japanese Government handed out "shopping coupons" worth 20,000 yen (about 200 dollars) to families for every child under the age of 15 and to roughly half of Japan's elderly population. In total, 25 percent of Japan's population received the coupons. The coupons expired after...