Hayato Kanayama's page

Hi, I am Hayato Kanayama.

I am a Ph.D student at Graduate school of Economics at Waseda university. 

My research interests lie primarily in the areas of Labor Economics and Personnel Economics. 

My current research investigates the spillover effect of taking parental leave on the firm.
Another research focus is the effect of minimum wage effect on the gig work labor markets.

Research Interest

• Labor Economics

• Personnel Economics

Work in progress

• Learning Amenity by Spot Working (with Masanori Kobayashi, Shosuke Noguchi, Suguru Otani)

• Who Covers for Parental Leave? Evaluating Spillover Effects Using Personnel Data (with Taiki Makino, Hideo Owan)

• Dynamics of Unemployment Insurance and Public Assistance under COVID-19 (with Michihito Ando and Masato Furuichi)

• Minimum Wages and Service Price (with Kozo Ueda)

• Minimum wage hikes and the heterogeneity of Labor supply (with Somei Miyashita) 

News

• Presentation: 19. Nov. 2025 高知工科大学 経済・マネジメント研究セミナーシリーズ

• Presentation: 14. Nov. 2025 「人材配置の経済学」研究会（Workshop on the economics of human resource allocation）

• Awarded: Excellence Paper Award, 20th Applied Micro Econometrics Conference, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, November 8

• Uploaded our working papers: Supervisor Accuracy in Subjective Evaluations and Employee Careers (with Yuji Kawata, Ritsu Kitagawa)

• Presentation (June. 2025): Western Economic Association International

• Uploaded our working papers: Who Bears the Cost? High-Frequency Evidence on Minimum Wage Effects and Amenity Pass-Through in Spot Labor Markets (with Sho Miyaji, Suguru Otani)

• Presentation (May. 2025): The Colloquium on Personnel Economics

• Uploaded our working papers: Nonparametric Estimation of Matching Efficiency and Elasticity in a Spot Gig Work Platform: 2019–2023 (with Suguru Otani)

• Presentation (Jan 2025): Kansai Rodo Kenkyu-kai (関西労働研究会) 

• Poster Session (Oct 2024): Japan Economic Association 2024 Fall Meeting

• Presentation (Sep 2024): Personnel Economics Workshop

• Poster Session (Sep 2024): W-SPRING/W-SPRING-AI PhD Forum

• Poster Session (Sep 2024): Labor Economic Conference, Minimum Wage Hikes and the Heterogeneity of Labor Supply (with Somei Miyashita)

• Presentation (May 2024): Japanese Economic Association 2024 Spring Meeting

• Presentation (May 2024): Contract Theory Workshop

• Uploaded our working Papers: Discontinuous or Kinked Response? Dynamics of Unemployment Insurance and Public Assistance under the COVID-19 Crisis (with Michihito Ando and Masato Furuichi)

• Poster Session (Sep 2023): Labor Economic Conference

• Awarded (Nov 2020): Hiroi Isami Award

• 12. Dec. 2025 東京労働経済学研究会（Tokyo Labor Economics Workshop）

• 18. Mar. 2026 早稲田大学 現代政治経済学研究所 大学院生ランチタイムワークショップ（Graduate Student Lunchtime Workshop at WINPEC）