“Telework, Management, and Technology,”
IZA, Discussion Paper Series No. 17685, Feb. 2025.
(with Atsushi Ohyama)
[This paper is a revised version of ESRI Discussion Paper Series, No. 375, originally appeared in April 2023.]
“Non-Compete Agreements: Human Capital Investments or Compensated Wages?”
IZA, Discussion Paper Series No. 17685, Feb. 2025.
(with Naomi Kodama and Atsuko Izumi)
[This paper is a revised version of CPRC Discussion Paper Series CPDP-97-E, originally appeared in September 2024.]
“Decomposing Recruitment Elasticity in Job Matching,”
IZA, Discussion Paper Series No. 17613, Jan. 2025.
(with Kohei Kawaguchi, and Suguru Otani)
[Former title was “Estimating Recruitment Elasticity in the Multi-stage and Bilateral Job Matching Process,”]
“The Impact of Overtime Limits on Firms and Workers: Evidence from Japan's Work Style Reform,”
IZA, Discussion Paper Series No. 17583, Dec. 2024.
(with Gabriel Burdin, and Takao Kato)
“The Consequences of Hometown Regiment: What Happened in Hometown When the Soldiers Never Returned?”
IER, Discussion Paper Series A, No. 743, Jun. 2023.
(with Kentaro Asai)
“Rise in Wage Inequality between Firms: Evidence from Japan 1995-2013,”
RIETI, Discussion Paper Series, 24-E-032, Mar. 2024.
(with Satoshi Tanaka and Shintaro Yamaguchi)
“The firm-level link between productivity dispersion and wage inequality: A symptom of low job mobility?”
OECD Economics Department Working Papers, No. 1656, OECD Publishing, Paris, updated on Aug. 2021.
(with Chiara Criscuolo, Alexander Hijzen, Michael Koelle, Cyrille Schwellnus, Erling Barth, Wen-Hao Chen, Richard Fabling, Priscilla Fialho, Alfred Garloff, Katharzyna Grabska, Valerie Lankester, Balazs Stadler, Oskar Nordström Skans, Satu Nurmi, Balazs Murakozy, Richard Upward and Wouter Zwysen)
“Workforce Composition, Productivity and Pay: The Role of Firms in Wage Inequality,”
OECD Economics Department Working Papers, No. 1603, OECD Publishing, Paris, Mar. 2020.
(with Chiara Criscuolo, Alexander Hijzen, Cyrille Schwellnus, Erling Barth, Wen-Hao Chen, Richard Fabling, Priscilla Fialho, Balazs Stadler, Richard Upward, Wouter Zwysen, Katarzyna Grabska, Timo Leidecker, Oskar Nordström Skans, Capucine Riom and Duncan Roth)
“The Role of Public Employment Services in a Developing Country: The Case of Japan in the Twentieth Century,”
PRIMCED Discussion Paper Series, No. 40, Mar. 2013.
“Firms' Incentive Provisions: Tournament Structure and Worker Flow,”
RCESR Discussion Paper Series, No.15-11. Dec. 2015.
(with Yuko Ueno)
“Long-term effects of job displacement in Japan: A conservative estimate using the Japanese Longitudinal Survey on Employment and Fertility (LOSEF),”
Center for Intergenerational Studies Discussion Paper Series, No.634, (IER, Hitotsubashi University), Oct. 2014.
(with Mayu Fujii)
“Deferred Compensation: Evidence from Employer-Employee Matched Data from Japan,”
Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series No.187. (IER, Hitotsubashi University), Oct. 2006.
(with Kyoji Fukao, Daiji Kawaguchi, Hyeog Ug Kwon, Young Gak Kim, and Izumi Yokoyama)
“Vacancy Size and Offered Wage: A Source of Search Friction in the Japanese Labor Market,”
Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series No.179. (IER, Hitotsubashi University), Aug. 2006.
(with Yuko Ueno)
“Managing Long Working Hours: Evidence from a Management Practice Survey,”
Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 60, Issue 1, pp. 37-69, Jan. 2025.
(with Mari Tanaka, Taisuke Kameda, Takuma Kawamoto, and Shigeru Sugihara).
“The International Empirics of Management,”
PNAS, Vol. 121, No. 45, Nov. 2024.
(with Daniela Scur, Scott Ohlmacher, John Van Reenen, Morten Bennedsen, Nicholas Bloom, Ali Choudhary, Lucia Foster, Jesse Groenewegen, Arti Grover, Sjoerd Hardeman, Leonardo Iacovone, Marie-Christine Laible, Renata Lemos, Hongbin Li, Andrea Linarello, Mika Maliranta, Denis Medvedev, Charlotte Meng, John Miles Touya, Natalia Mandirola, Roope Ohlsbom, Atsushi Ohyama, Megha Patnaik, Mariana Pereira-Lopez, Raffaella Sadun, Tatsuro Senga, Franklin Qian, Florian Zimmermann)
“Japanese Labor Market,”
In Tor Eriksson ed. Elgar Encyclopedia of Labour Studies, Ch. 19, Sep. 2023, pp.83-85.
“What the Welfare State Left Behind -Securing the Capability to Move for the Vulnerable-,”
Asian Economic Policy Review, Vol. 18, Issue 1, pp. 124-143, Jan. 2023.
(with Reiko Gotoh).
“Why do Redistributive Policies Differ across Countries? Analyzing the Multiple Dimensions of Preferences for Redistribution,”
the Review of Income and Wealth, Vol. 68, Issue 4, pp. 1032-1057, Dec. 2022.
(with Sebastien Lechevalier).
“Do Collective Bargaining Institutions Crowd Out Discussion and Implementation of Firm-Related Training Programs? Evidence from Inside the Japanese Firm,”
International Journal of Training and Development, Vol. 24, Issue 3, pp. 204-230, Sep. 2020.
(with Takao Katoi).
“Employees who do not Know Their Labour Contract Term - Implications for Working Conditions: Evidence from Japanese and Spanish Micro Data,”
Japan and the World Economy, Vol. 49, pp.95-104, Mar. 2019.
(with Yuji Genda and Markus Heckel).
“How does Early Childcare Enrollment Affect Children, Parents, and Their Interactions?”
Labor Economics, Vol.55, pp. 56-71, Sep. 2018.
(with Yukiko Asai and Shintaro Yamaguchi).
“Effects of Subsidized Childcare on Mothers’Labor Supply Under a Rationing Mechanism”
Labor Economics, Vol.55, pp. 1-17, Sep. 2018.
(with Yukiko Asai and Shintaro Yamaguchi).
“Long-Term Employment and Job Security over the Past 25 Years: A Comparative Study of Japan and the United States,”
Industrial Labour Relations Review, Vol.70, No. 3, pp. 359-394, Mar. 2017.
(with Takao Kato).
“Declining Self-employment in Japan Revisited: A Short Survey,”
Social Science Japan Journal, Vol.20, No.1, pp.73-93, Jan. 2017.
“Task Polarization in the Japanese Labor Market: Evidence of a Long-term Trend,”
Industrial Relations, Vol.55, pp. 267-293, Mar. 2016.
(with Toshie Ikenaga).
“The Japanese Labour Market during the Global Financial Crisis and the Role of Non-Standard Work: A Micro Perspective,”
the Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol.38, pp. 260-281, Dec. 2015.
(with with Yuji Genda, Alexander Hijzen, and Hiroshi Teruyama).
“Childcare Availability, Household Structure, and Maternal Employment,”
the Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol.38, pp. 172-192, Dec. 2015.
(with Yukiko Asai and Shintaro Yamaguchi).
“Disemployment Caused by Foreign Direct Investment? Multinationals and Japanese Employment,”
Review of World Economics, Vol. 151, pp. 433-460, July 2015.
(with Kozo Kiyota).
“Incidence of Strict Quality Standards: Protection of Consumers or Windfall for Professionals?”
Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 57, pp. 195-224, Feb. 2014.
(with Daiji Kawaguchi and Tetsushi Murao).
“Differences in Definitions of Non-Regular Employee in Government Statistics,”
Japan Labor Review, Vol.10, No.4, Autumn 2013, pp.55-66.
“The Minimum Wage in a Deflationary Economy: The Japanese Experience, 1994-2003,”
Labor Economics, Vol. 24, pp. 264-276, Oct. 2013.
(with Daiji Kawaguchi and Ken Yamada).
“Trends in Worker Displacement Penalties in Japan: 1991-2005,”
Japan and the World Economy, Vol. 27, pp. 41-57, Aug. 2013.
(with Michael Bognanno).
“Wage and Productivity Differentials in Japan. The Role of Labor Market Mechanisms,”
Labour, Vol. 26, Issue 4, pp. 514-541, Dec. 2012.
(with Yannick Kalantzis and Sebastien Lechevalier).
“Dismissal Regulation in Japan,”
in Koichi Hamada, Keijiro Otsuka, Gustav Ranis, and Ken Togo (eds.) Miraculous Growth and Stagnation in Post-War Japan, Routledge, pp.74-90, Apr. 2011.
“Employment and Wage Adjustments at Firms under Distress in Japan: An Analysis Based upon a Survey,”
the Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol.24, No.2, pp.213-235, Jun. 2010.
(with Kenn Ariga)..
“Wage Distribution in Japan: 1989-2003,”
Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol.41, No.4, pp.1329-1350, Nov. 2008.
(with Daiji Kawaguchi and Izumi Yokoyama).
“Kan’ichi Asawaka as an Economic Historian, or a Historian of the Medieval Japan,”
in Masaru Kohno and Frances Rosenbluth, eds., Japan and the World, pp.39-52., 2008, New Haven, Connecticut.
(with Koichi Hamada).
“The Registration System and the Grade Wage: From cooperation to a market for human capital? A lesson from the Japanese silk reeling industry,”
in Tetsuji Okazaki (ed.) Production Organizations in the Japanese Economic Development, Routledge, pp.39-74, 2007.
“Ageing and Employment in Japan,”
in Koichi Hamada and Hiromi Kato (eds.) Ageing and the Labor Market in Japan, Edward Elgar, ch.1, pp.1-23, 2007.
(with Yuji Genda, Hiroshi Teruyama, Souichi Ohta, Mamiko Ishihara).
“Law and Economics of Labor in Japan,”
Japan Labor Review, Vol.1, No.4, Autumn 2004, pp.70-97.
“Declining Self-employment in Japan,”
the Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol.16, No.1, pp.73-91, Mar. 2002.
(with Yuji Genda).