Publications:
 
"Productivity Growth, On-the-Job Search, and Unemployment" (with Yuya Takahashi), Forthcoming, Journal of Monetary Economics.  

 

"Gross Worker Flows and Unemployment Dynamics in Japan" (with Ching-Yang Lin), Forthcoming, Journal of The Japanese and International Economies.

(related paper: Ins and Outs of Unemployment Dynamics in Japan (in Japanese))

 

"Unemployment and Labor Force Participation in Japan" (with Makoto Kakinaka), Applied Economics Letters, 2012 Volume 19 Issue 11, Pages 1039-1043.

 

"Cyclical Behavior of Unemployment and Job Vacancies in JapanJapan and the World Economy, 2011 Volume 23 Issue 3, Pages 214-225. 

 

"Efficiency in a Search and Matching Model with Training Costs" Economic Modelling, 2011 Volume 28 Issule 4, Pages 1838-1841.
 
"Cyclical Behavior of a Matching Model with Capital Investment" The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2011 Vol. 11: Iss. 1 (Topics), Article 2.
 
"R&D, Unemployment, and Labor Market PoliciesJapan and the World Economy, 2010 Volume 22 Issue 3, Pages 198-205.
 
"Real Shock or Nominal Shock? Exchange Rate Movements in Cambodia and Lao PDR" (with Seiha Ok and Makoto Kakinaka) Singapore Economic Review, 2010 Volume 55 Issue 4, Page 685-703. 
 
"Cyclical Shocks in a Model of Equilibrium Unemployment" (with Yoshimasa Shirai) The Japanese Economic Review, 2010 Volume 61 Issue 2, Page 282-288. 
 
"Job Flows and Unemployment in an Equilibrium Unemployment Model with Firm-Specific Skill Training" (with Yoshimasa Shirai) The Japanese Economic Review, 2006 Volume 57 Issue 4, Page 547-561.

Recent Research Papers:

"Economic Growth, Technological Diffusion and Unemployment Dynamics" April 2009.
 

"The Ins and Outs of the Long-Run Unemployment Dynamics" February 2011.

 

"On-the-Job Search, Endogenous Job Separation, and the Labor Market Dynamics: A Quantitative Assessment" (with Yuya Takahashi) November 2011. 

 

  

Work In Progress:
"Sectoral Unemployment Dynamics and Trade" (with Sang Yoon (Tim) Lee and Yuya Takahashi)
 
"Growth and Non-Regular Work"