Asia accounts for over 40 percent of the world’s population. Regarding Asia as a single, vast economic space, I am interested in how industries develop there and the resulting impacts on individual societies. As firms in East and Southeast Asia improve the quality of the goods and services they offer, expand their distribution networks and supply chains, adopt new technologies and management practices, and even introduce robots into production and distribution sites, the flexibility of their corporate activity increases. Will this strengthen or weaken the position of workers and their bargaining power? Furthermore, to what extent will the concentration of economic activity in metropolitan areas continue? In addition to these questions, I also investigate challenges such as reducing the risk of traffic accidents. See also my research page as follows.
My research is supported by KAKENHI grants. I acknowledge the financial support from KAKENHI, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) for writing research papers (KAKENHI grants 2006-9, 2009-12, 2012-15, 2015-19, 2019-23).
CSEAS webpage: https://en.kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/about/staff-page/machikita-tomohiro/
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2237-8659
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tomohiro_Machikita
Researchmap: https://researchmap.jp/tomohiro_machikita/
Newsletter: Research on the Economy of Labor at CSEAS (PDF, pp.20-21)
WORK IN PROGRESS
Relation-Specific Skill and Supplier Growth: The Motorcycle Industries in Indonesia and Vietnam, (with Mai Fujita, Yuri Sato, and Mariko Watanabe).
Vocational Training, Market Transparency, and Job Search, (with Takahiro Fukunishi).
Firm–to–Firm Technology Transfers: Direct Evidences from Network Data, (with Yasushi Ueki).
Incentives on the Road: Multitask Principal-Agent Problem and Traffic Accidents in the Trucking Industry, (with Chawalit Jeenanunta, Masatsugu Tsuji, and Yasushi Ueki).
WORKING PAPERS/PAPERS UNDER REVIEW
Transition to a Modern Regime and Change in Plant Lifecycles: A Natural Experiment from Meiji Japan, (with Tetsuji Okazaki), The University of Tokyo, CIRJE-F-1122, August 2019.
Broker versus Social Networks in Adverse Working Conditions: Cross-Sectional Evidence from Cambodian Migrants in Thailand, (with Yutaka Arimoto, Kenmei Tsubota), IDE Discussion Paper, No. 686, Jan 2018.
Forced Labour and Risk Factors for Inferior Working Conditions in Thai Fishing Sector, (with Yutaka Arimoto, Kenmei Tsubota), IDE Discussion Paper, No. 685, Jan 2018.
The Consequence of Educational Reform on Youth Employment: Evidence from an Enrollment Increase in Vocational Training in Ethiopia, (with Takahiro Fukunishi), IDE Discussion Paper, No. 678, Nov 2017.
Vocational Education and Employment Outcomes in Ethiopia: Displacement Effects in Local Labor Markets, (with Takahiro Fukunishi), IDE Discussion Paper, No. 678, Nov 2017.
A Model of Temporary and Permanent Jobs and Trade, (with Hitoshi Sato), IDE Discussion Paper, No. 655, Dec 2016.
Temporary Jobs and Globalization, (with Hitoshi Sato), IDE Discussion Paper, No. 585, Mar 2016. (Previous: RIETI Discussion Paper 11-E-029. Policy Brief in Japanese.)
The Effect of Extended Unemployment Benefit on the Job Finding Hazards: A Quasi-Experiment in Japan, (with Miki Kohara and Masaru Sasaki), IZA Discussion Paper, No.7559, Aug 2013.
PUBLISHED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Examining the Role of Top Management Leadership Style on Transportation Efficiency and Profitability of Logistics Firms, (with Chawalit Jeenanunta, Le Thi Ngoc Lan, Nattharika Rittippant, Pornpimol Chongphaisal, Masa Tsuji, and Yasushi Ueki), Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology, (2018), 40(6): 1306-1314.
Industrial Upgrading with Resource Allocation Toward External Information Sources, (with Masatsugu Tsuji and Yasushi Ueki), International Journal of Technology and Globalization, (2017), 8(2): 141-168.
Technology Transfer in ASEAN Countries: Some Evidence from Buyer-Provided Training Network Data, (with Fukunari Kimura and Yasushi Ueki), Economic Change and Restructuring, (2016), 49(2–3):195–219.
Does Kaizen Create Backward Knowledge Transfer to Southeast Asian Firms?, (with Masatsugu Tsuji and Yasushi Ueki), Journal of Business Research, (2016), 69(5): 1556-1561.
Measuring and Explaining Innovative Capability: Evidence from Southeast Asia, (with Yasushi Ueki), Asian Economic Policy Review, (2015), 10(1): 152-173.
South-South Technology Transfer to Laos through Face-to-Face Contacts, (with Xaysomphet Norasingh and Yasushi Ueki), Journal of Business Research, (2015), 68(7): 1420–1425.
Measuring Search Frictions using Japanese Micro Data, (with Masaru Sasaki and Miki Kohara), Japanese Economic Review, (2013), 64(4): 431–451.
Is Longer Unemployment Rewarded with Longer Job Tenure?, (with Miki Kohara and Masaru Sasaki), Journal of Japanese and International Economies, (2013), 29: 44–56.
How Export and Import Platforms Drive Industry Upgrading: Five Facts about Emerging Multinationals, (with Masami Ishida and Yasushi Ueki), Asian Journal of Technology Innovation, (2013), 21(S1): 4-24.
Knowledge Transfer Channel to Vietnam for Process Improvement, (with Yasushi Ueki), Management Decision, (2013), 51(5): 954-972.
Interactive Learning-driven Innovation in Upstream-Downstream Relations, (with Yasushi Ueki), International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development, (2012), 5(4): 346-366.
The Causes of Geographic Extent of Global Supply Chain: Evidence from Southeast Asia, (with Yasushi Ueki), Asian Pacific Economic Literature, (2012), 26(2): 72-87.
Impacts of Incoming Knowledge on Product Innovation: Evidence from Technology Transfer of Auto-related Industries, (with Yasushi Ueki), Asian Journal of Technology Innovation, (2012), 20: 9-27.
Globalization and Productivity: A Survey of Firm‐Level Analysis, (with Kazunobu Hayakawa and Fukunari Kimura), Journal of Economic Surveys, (2012), 26(2): 332-350.
The Impacts of Face-to-face and Frequent Interactions on Innovation: Upstream-Downstream Relations, (with Yasushi Ueki), International Journal of Institution and Economies, (2011), 3(3): 519-548.
Innovations in Linked and Non-Linked Firms: Effects of Variety of Linkages in East Asia, (with Yasushi Ueki), International Journal of Institution and Economies, (2011), 3(1): 77-102.
Voting for Highway Construction in Economic Geography, (with Ryusuke Ihara), Annals of Regional Science, (2007), 41(4): 951-966.
Is Learning by Migrating to a Megalopolis Really Important? Evidence from Thailand, Kyoto Economic Review, (2006), 75(1): 35-61.
A New Empirical Regularity in World Income Distribution Dynamics, 1960-2001, (with Roki Iwahashi), Economics Bulletin, (2004), 6(19): 1-9.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
"Migrating Asia: Labor mobility in an interdependent and connected world" in The Asian Economy Contemporary Issues and Challenges, Kenta Goto, Tamaki Endo, and Asei Ito (eds), Routledge, 2020.
"International Migration and Economic Integration" in East Asia in The Economics of East Asian Integration, Masahisa Fujita, Ikuo Kuroiwa and Satoru Kumagai (eds), Edward Elgar, 2011.
"Industrial Clusters and Workplace Training to Expand Innovation Capability," in From Agglomeration to Innovation, Akifumi Kuchiki and Masatsugu Tsuji (eds), Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.