REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
“The Unexpected Side Effects of Lockdowns on Those Barely Inside and Outside of Lockdown Areas” (with Reo Takaku, Takahiro Tabuchi, and Takeo Fujiwara), 2025, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics,(2025): 1–25, https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.70016.
“Endogenous Decisions on Acceptable Worker-job Mismatch Level and the Impact on Workers’ Performance” (with Takuya Obara, Arisa Shichijo Kiyomoto, Kaichi Kusada, Kazuma Edamura, and Tomohiko Inui, 2024, Japan and the World Economy, 101283.
“How Do the Firm Attain Internal and External Flexibility of Employment?” (with Taiyo Fukai, Daiji Kawaguchi, Ayako Kondo), 2024, Labour Economics, Volume 91, 102628.
“How Serious Was It? The Impact of Preschool Closure on Mothers' Psychological Distress: Evidence from the First COVID-19 Outbreak” (with Reo Takaku), 2024, Japanese Economic Review, Volume 75, Issue 3.
“Is Asian Flushing Syndrome a Disadvantage in the Labor Market?” (with Daiji Kawaguchi, Jungmin Lee, and Ming-Jen Lin), 2023, Health Economics, Volume 32, Issue 7, pp.1478-1503.
“The Financial Health of "Swing Hospitals" during the First COVID-19 Outbreak” (with Reo Takaku), 2022, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Volume 65, 101218.
“SARS-CoV-2 Suppression and Early Closure of Bars and Restaurants: a Longitudinal Natural Experiment”(with Reo Takaku, Takahiro Tabuchi, and Takeo Fujiwara), 2022, Scientific Reports, Volume 12, 12623.
“Employment Adjustments of Regular and Non-Regular Workers to Exogenous Shocks: Evidence from Exchange-Rate Fluctuation” (with Kazuhito Higa and Daiji Kawaguchi), 2021, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 74 (2), pp. 470–510.
"Human Resources Management Using Scores for Cognitive and Non-cognitive Abilities" (with Tomohiko Inui, Naomi Kodama, Tomoki Sonoda, Jun Naito, and Mitsuhiko Nita), 2019, The Economic Review, Vol.199, pp 95-121, Economic and Social Research Institute (in Japanese).
“Inequality through Wage Response to the Business Cycle —Evidence from the FFL Decomposition Method—” (with Naomi Kodama and Yoshio Higuchi), 2019, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol. 51, pp. 87-98.
“Effects of state-sponsored human capital investment on the selection of training type” (with Naomi Kodama and Yoshio Higuchi), 2019, Japan and the World Economy, Vol. 49, pp. 40-49.
“How the Tax Reform on the Special Exemption for Spouse Affected the Work-Hour Distribution,” 2018, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol. 49, pp. 69-84.
“The Labor Market Effects of Increases in Social Insurance Premium: Evidence from Japan” (with Naomi Kodama), 2018, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 80, Issue 5, pp. 992-1019.
“Why the Earnings of the Middle Class Declined: Evidence from Japan” (with Naomi Kodama), 2018, Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 26, Issue 2, pp.152-156.
“Optimal Combination of Wage Cuts and Layoffs —The Unexpected Side Effect of a Performance-based Payment System—” (with Takuya Obara), 2017, IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 6:14.
“Business Cycle and Wage Inequality in Japan” (with Naomi Kodama), 2017, The Economic Review, Vol.195, pp.34-61, Economic and Social Research Institute (in Japanese).
“Assessing the Effectiveness of Standard-Hours Reduction: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Japan” (with Daiji Kawaguchi and Hisahiro Naito), 2017, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol 43, pp. 59-76.
“Why do Wages become More Rigid during a Recession than during a Boom?,” 2014, IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 3:6.
“Has Japan's Long-Term Employment Practice Survived? Developments Since the 1990s,” (with Satoshi Shimizutani), 2009, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 62, Issue 3, pp. 313-326.
“Wage Distribution in Japan: 1989-2003” (with Daiji Kawaguchi, Ryo Kambayashi), 2008, Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 1329-1350.
“Are Wage-tenure Profiles Steeper than Productivity-tenure Profiles? －Evidence from Japanese Establishment Data from the Census of Manufacturers and the Basic Survey Wage Structure－” (with Daiji Kawaguchi, Ryo Kambayashi, Young Gak Kim, Hyeog Ug Kwon, Satoshi Shimizutani, Kyoji Fukao, and Tatsuji Makino), 2007, The Economic Review, Vol.58, No.1, pp. 61-90, (in Japanese).
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Does the Diversification of Work Styles Widen Inequality? Understanding the Reality through Labor Economics,” 2025, in New Economics as a Liberal Art, Part I: Chapter 3, YUHIKAKU PUBLISHING CO.,LTD. pp.32-40, (in Japanese).
“Impact of Preschool Children Not Attending School Due to COVID-19 School Closures on Mothers' Psychological Distress” (with Reo Takaku), 2024, Trend of Modern Economics, (in Japanese), forthcoming.
“Elevate Work Skills by Oneself —Making Up for Something We Lack,” in Genda, Yuji (ed.), National Federation of Workers and Consumers Insurance Cooperatives (supervisor), Navigating Your Career in Your Thirties, Chapter 7, October 2018, Iwanami Shoten, (in Japanese).
“A Brief History of Japanese Medicine” (with Michael D. Fetters), Chapter 15, pp.341-365, in The Sage Handbook of Japanese Studies, December 2014, SAGE Publications Ltd.
“Health Care in Japan: Excellent Population Health, Low Medical Expenditures, yet Ambiguous Place of Primary Care” (with Michael D. Fetters and Jonathan E. Rodnick), Chapter 16, pp.366-379, in The Sage Handbook of Japanese Studies, December 2014, SAGE Publications Ltd.
“Medical Education in Japan” (with Michael D. Fetters), Chapter 17, pp.380-405, in The Sage Handbook of Japanese Studies, Chapter 16, December 2014, SAGE Publications Ltd.
“An Analysis of Employment Mismatch and Issues to Be Challenged” (with Isao Ohashi) Research Institute for the Advancement of Living Standards, April 2006, (in Japanese).
NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
“My Vision: Raising Real Wages: What Concrete Policies Are Required?,” 2025, Enhance Work Incentives and Corporate Productivity to Create a Virtuous Cycle of Wage Increases, Nippon Institute for Research Advancement (in Japanese).
“Impact of Preschool Children Not Attending School Due to COVID-19 School Closures on Mothers' Psychological Distress” (with Reo Takaku), 2024, Trend of Modern Economics, (in Japanese), forthcoming.
“The 2024 Japan Economic Association Award for Young Female Researchers sponsored by the Nippon Life Insurance Company”. (with Moriguchi, C., Tanaka, M., Matsui, A., Yokoyama, I., & Horioka, C. Y.), 2025, The Japanese Economic Review, pp. 1-2.
“Discussion: Where Do Disparities Come From? Thinking From Familiar Social Issues,” In Special Issue: Understanding Inequality Through Economics, April/May 2024, The Keizai Seminar, No. 737, Nippon Hyoron Sha Co., Ltd., (in Japanese).
“Being a Better Social Drinker Doesn’t Mean Earning More: Survey From 3,500 Working Men in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea”: “Economists Interpreting the Realities of Contemporary Society,” Weekly Toyo Keizai, June 3, 2023, pp.102-103 (in Japanese).
“Better social drinkers don’t earn more: Alcohol-tolerant men in East Asia don’t financially benefit over their intolerant colleagues,” The University of Tokyo Press Release, April 25, 2023.
“Problems with Wage Hikes: Requests May Result in Limited Impacts on Productivity,” Economic Classroom (Keizai Kyoushitsu) column in The Nikkei, February 17, 2022 (in Japanese).
“The Impact on Children’s Health; Lessons from School Closures in 2020,” “Economists Interpreting the Realities of Contemporary Society,” Weekly Toyo Keizai, September 25, 2021, pp. 80–81 (in Japanese).
“Human Capital and Wage Determination,” In Special Issue: Wage Determination from the View Point of Economics, June/July 2018, The Keizai Seminar, No.702, Nippon Hyoron Sha Co., Ltd. (in Japanese).
“Women’s labor supply and taxation: —Analysis of the current situation using data—” (with Naomi Kodama), 2018, Public Policy Review, Vol.14, No.2, pp.267-300.
“The employment insurance system and unemployed behaviors,” In Anticipating the 2017 Employment Status Survey (co-authored with Yuko Mori), July 2017, Tokei, (the monthly journal of the Japan Statistical Association), pp. 26-33 (in Japanese).
“Changes in wage inequality and the structure of wage determination in Japan” (with Yoshio Higuchi and Naomi Kodama), 11 November 2016. VoxEU.
“Women’s labor and tax: The analysis of the current situation using data” (with Naomi Kodama), 2016, The Financial Review: Special Issue on Tax Reform: Evidence-Based Policy Recommendation, 2(127), Chapter 8 (in Japanese).
“Similar but not the same: An aspect of in-house management: An interpretation of seniority-based wage system: Human capital/wage in arrears,” April 2015, The Japanese Journal of Labor Studies, 657, pp. 34-35 (in Japanese).
“The overview of the field: The present of the study of labor economics: Drawing from publications from 2012 to 2014” (with Hiroshi Ono, Tadashi Sakai; and Kazufumi Yugami), February/March 2015, The Japanese Journal of Labor Studies, 657, pp. 2-36 (in Japanese).
“The effect of modern unionization ~Regression discontinuity design~,” 2007, The Japanese Journal of Labor Studies, 559, pp.108-109 (in Japanese).
“Estimation of unemployment costs: An analysis of employment mismatch and issues to be challenged” (with Isao Ohashi), 2006, in Research Institute for the Advancement of Living Standards, RENGO-RIALS, Chapter 5 (pp.157–186) (in Japanese).
“Does wage profile diverge from productivity profile? Empirical analysis based on a manufacturer’s census and a basic survey of wage structure,” (with Daiji Kawaguchi, Ryo Kambayashi, Young Gak Kim, Hyeog Ug Kwon, Satoshi Shimizutani, Shigeaki Shiraishi, Kazuhiro Sugie, Kyoji Fukao, and Tatsuji Makino), 2006, Background Paper Prepared for Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (in Japanese).
OTHER (DISSERTATION)
The Japanese Public Policies on Tax, Wages, and Standard Work Hours−Evidence from Micro Data, 2013, Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan.