This paper examines why Japanese labor share is falling recently usingBasic Survey of Japanese Business Structure and Activities which has awealth of information of detailed offshoring information. The results canbe summarized as follows. First, not all the firms uniformly decrease theirlabor...

This paper analyzes labor supply behaviour for Japanese married men and women taking account for their joint decision. The estimation results by simultaneous tobit implies that Japanese wives reduce their labor supply when husbands increase their labor supply while husbands do not change their...

This paper empirically analyzes the gender wage gap in Japan using a new data set KHPS2004 which contains a wealth of information on the work history of individuals. KHPS2004 enables us to estimate wage functions without overstating individual's human capital accumulation by work experience...