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YOSHINO Naoyuki

Mar 11, 2010 New 
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"Post-Crisis Industrial Policies: Facilitation of corporate metabolism should be the target"
YOSHINO Naoyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

RIETI Report

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GOTO Yasuo

Feb 24, 2009 New
"The Course of the Economy Critically Hinges on Policy Choices in 2010"
GOTO Yasuo (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

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TANI Midori

Feb 18, 2009 New
"Environmental Policy"
TANI Midori (Senior Analyst for Consumer Policy,Ministry of Economy, METI/Consulting Fellow in Research Institute of Economy, RIETI)

FUJITA Masahisa

Feb 16, 2009 New
"The New Global Economic Order and East Asia : From the viewpoint of spatial economics (Keynote speech at Plenary Session of the 2010 KEA Annual Meeting)"
FUJITA Masahisa (President and Chief Research Officer, RIETI, Professor Konan University, President, Japanese Economic Association)

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Mar 9, 2010
"Firm Size and Business Startup Reasons of Japanese Workers"
TSUCHIYA Ryuichiro (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University)
Mar 1, 2010
"Environmental Product Standards in North-South Trade"
ISHIKAWA Jota (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) and OKUBO Toshihiro (Kobe University)
Feb 9, 2010
"Entropy Characterisation of Insurance Demand: Theory and Evidence"
NAKATA Hiroyuki (University of Essex), SAWADA Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) and TANAKA Mari (The University of Tokyo)

Discussion Papers (abstract in English, text in Japanese)

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Mar 16, 2010
"Volatility of Firm Performance and Atypical Employment: An empirical analysis using firm-level data"
MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)
"Working Hours of Part-timers and the Measurement of Firm-level Productivity"
MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)
Mar 9, 2010
"Working Hours Policy From an Economics Standpoint"
HIGUCHI Yoshio (Keio University)
"Legislative Issues of the Working Hours System for White Collar Workers"
SHIMADA Yoichi (Waseda University)

Policy Discussion Papers (abstract in English, text in Japanese)

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Mar 16, 2010
"RIETI Productivity Studies: A survey for policy planners"
MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)
Feb 19, 2010
"How long do Japanese work? - A comparison before and after the shorter work week"
KURODA Sachiko (the University of Tokyo)
Feb 19, 2010
"Effect of the White Collar Exemption in the Japanese Labor Market"
KURODA Sachiko (the University of Tokyo) and YAMAMOTO Isamu (Keio University)

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Feb 25, 2010 New 
"Four-day Work Week as a Catalyst for Economic and Social Change"

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IWAMOTO Masayuki
Consulting Fellow, RIETI

Following the introduction of the five-day work week for national government employees in 1992, it became the norm for Japanese workers - whether in the private or public sector - to take Saturdays and Sundays off.

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Mar 19, 2010  New 
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