Working paper:

• "A Positive Outcome of COVID-19?: The Effects of Work from Home on Gender Attitudes and Household Production," with Daiji Kawaguchi. [Bank of Japan DP 22-E-2, March 2022]

Work in Progress:

• "What Boosts Family-Friendly Program Take-up and Maternal Employment?: The Role of Employers," with Taiyo Fukai.

Published paper (refereed): 

• "Long-Term Consequences of Teaching Gender Roles:  Evidence from Desegregating Industrial Arts and Home Economics in Japan,” with Núria Rodríguez-Planas, accepted at  Journal of Labor Economics, 2023. [previous ver. RIETI DP 21-E-072, August 2021]

• "The Effect of Public-Sponsored Job Training in Japan,"   Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, vol. 64, 101187, 2022.

• “The Impact of Worker-Financed Training: Evidence from Early- and Mid-career Workers in Japan,” Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, vol. 51, pp. 64-75, 2019. [link] 

• “The Gender Wage Gap across the Wage Distribution in Japan: Within- and Between-Establishment Effects,” Labour Economics, Vol. 53, pp. 213-229, 2018. 

• “Minimum Wage Effects on Firm-provided and Worker-initiated Training,” Labour Economics, Vol. 47, pp. 149-162, 2017. 

• “The Impact of Firm-provided Training on Productivity, Wages, and Transition to Regular Employment for Workers in Flexible Arrangements,” Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol. 34, pp. 336-359, 2014. [link]

• “Union Wage Effect in Japan,” Industrial Relations, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 569-590, 2008. (with Daiji Kawaguchi)  [link]

Published Paper (non-refereed):

• “What Influences Workers in Deciding to Support Unions?: Evidence from Japan - Focus on Workers' Understanding of Their Rights,'' Japan Labor Review, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 91-115, 2006, with Hiroki Sato. 

• "Labour Demand for New High School Graduates in Japan,'' Japan Labor Review, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 49-72, 2005. 

Essay: 

• "The Gender Wage Gap in Japan – the Glass Ceiling Phenomenon," CESifo Forum, 23(2), 2022.

• “Explaining the Persistence of the Gender Wage Gap in Japan: The ‘glass ceiling’ and the ‘sticky floor’,” VoxEU, 2017. 

Conference & Seminar Presentation:

• 2024: Kansai Labor Workshop, Meiji Univ Econ WS  (scheduled), Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society Conference (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, scheduled),  European Association of Labour Economist (EALE) Conference (FAIR Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality and NHH, Bergen, Norway, scheduled) .

• 2023: Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics (AASLE) Conference (Taipei).

• 2022: AASLE Conference (UTokyo).

• 2021:  Tokyo Labor Economics Workshop, Ministry of Health, Labour, and Economics, Bank of Japan & UTokyo Conference.

• 2020:  Econometric Society World Congress (online, hosted by Bocconi Univ.), Keio Economics Workshop.

• 2019:  Kansai Labor Workshop, Tokyo Labor Economics Workshop, CORE (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium), Empirical Microeconomics Workshop (UTokyo/GRIPS), Motu Economic & Public Policy Research (Wellington, NZ), Victoria University of Wellington (NZ), Labor Economics Conference (Osaka), AASLE Conference (NUS, Singapore)

• 2018: University of California-Irvine, CORE (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium), AASLE Conference (Seoul, Korea)

• 2017:  AASLE Inaugural Conference (Canberra, Australia), EALE Conference (Switzerland), Asian Conference on Microeconomics and Econometrics

• 2016:  EALE Conference (poster, Belgium), Fall Meeting of JEA (English session), IZA, Asian Meeting of Econometric Society

＊Last update: 06/11/2024