Measuring Social Exclusion of Non Regular Workers in Japan

KUME Koichi  (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
OHTAKE Fumio  (Osaka University)
OKUDAIRA Hiroko  (Okayama University)
TSURU Kotaro  (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
March 2010  10-J-025

Construction of Eco-system for NTBFs to Thrive, Grow and Agglomerate

NISHIZAWA Akio  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
WAKABAYASHI Naoki  (Kyoto University)
SABURI Masataka  (Tohoku University / METI)
KUTSUNA Kenji  (Kobe University)
HIBARA Nobuhiko (Ritsumeikan University)
KANAI Kazuyori (Osaka University)
March 2010  10-J-024

Volatility of Firm Performance and Atypical Employment: An empirical analysis using firm-level data

MORIKAWA Masayuki  (Vice President, RIETI)
March 2010  10-J-023

Working Hours of Part-timers and the Measurement of Firm-level Productivity

MORIKAWA Masayuki  (Vice President, RIETI)
March 2010  10-J-022

Evaluating the Merger and its Remedies in a Dynamic Environment: Revisiting the 1970 Yawata-Fuji steel merger

OHASHI Hiroshi  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
NAKAMURA Tsuyoshi  (TOKYO KEIZAI UNIVERSITY)
MYOJO Satoshi  (Japan Science and Technology Agency)
February 2010  10-J-021

Business Startups: An analysis of selection and post-startup performance

YASUDA Takehiko  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
February 2010  10-J-020

Can the WTO Law be Applied Indirectly in Municipal Courts? Analysis of the trade remedies cases in the United States and NAFTA

ITO Kazuyori  (University of Shizuoka)
February 2010  10-J-019

Wages and Productivity in Firms using Foreign Trainees

HASHIMOTO Yuki  (Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo/Japan Soceity for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) )
February 2010  10-J-018

Institutional Reform of Working Hours from a Workplace Standpoint: With a focus on incorporated national universities

KOJIMA Noriaki  (OSAKA UNIVERSITY)
February 2010  10-J-017

Do Education Vouchers Prevent Dropouts at Private High Schools? Evidence from Japanese Policy Changes

AKABAYASHI Hideo  (Keio University)
ARAKI Hiroko  (Keio University, Graduate School )
February 2010  10-J-016

Legislative Issues of the Working Hours System for White Collar Workers

SHIMADA Yoichi  (Waseda University)
February 2010  10-J-015

Working Hours Reform: A bird's-eye perspective

TSURU Kotaro  (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
February 2010  10-J-014

Is Work Sharing Effective?

KAWAGUCHI Daiji  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
TSURU Kotaro  (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
February 2010  10-J-013

Legal Issues of Working Hours and the Direction of Reforms

MIZUMACHI Yuichiro  (the University of Tokyo)
February 2010  10-J-012

Working Hours, Management, and Workers: What kinds of people in what kinds of companies feel their working hours are becoming longer?

MORISHIMA Motohiro  (Hitotsubashi University)
February 2010  10-J-011

Working Hours Policy From an Economics Standpoint

HIGUCHI Yoshio  (Keio University)
February 2010  10-J-010

Simulation Analysis of Community Farming: Is there any room for growth in Japanese rice farming?

SAITO Keiji  (The National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP))
OHASHI Hiroshi  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
NISHIMURA Kiyohiko  (Bank of Japan)
February 2010  10-J-009

The Over-employment of Regular Employees and their Work-family Conflict

YAMAGUCHI Kazuo  (Visiting Fellow, RIETI)
January 2010  10-J-008

Agenda for R&D Globalization of Japanese Firms: From an organizational and strategic perspective

ASAKAWA Kazuhiro  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
January 2010  10-J-007
The Survey on International Questionnaire on R&D Management of Japanese Firms

Product Innovation and Economic Growth

YOSHIKAWA Hiroshi  (The University of Tokyo, Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
ANDO Koichi  (Development Bank of Japan Inc.)
MIYAKAWA Shuko  (Research Assistant, RIETI)
January 2010  10-J-006

Demand Driven Innovation and Uncertainty: Evidence from diffusion of flat panel TV

UNAYAMA Takashi  (KOBE University)
KEIDA Masayuki  (Risso University)
January 2010  10-J-005

Marriage Rate and Female Labor Participation Rate: Evidence from Japanese prefectural cross-section

UNAYAMA Takashi  (KOBE University)
January 2010  10-J-004

Discrepancy between Saving Rates in SNA and Family Income and Expenditure Survey and Its Implications

UNAYAMA Takashi  (KOBE University)
January 2010  10-J-003

A Study about the Job Training Expenditure of Japanese Firms in the 1990s

SUGA Yutaka  (Research Assistant, RIETI)
January 2010  10-J-002

Backward Patent Citations and Inventors' Recognition of Differential Influences

WADA Tetsuo  (Gakushuin University)
January 2010  10-J-001

A Comparison of Japanese and U.S. Nuclear Power Plants in Reactor Operating and Incident Rates

KAINOU Kazunari  (Fellow, RIETI)
December 2009  09-J-035
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Empirical Analysis of the Functions of the National University System: For appropriate allocation of subsidies

SHIMA Kazunori (Hiroshima University)
November 2009  09-J-034

JSR Challenges Increasing Market and Technology Complexities: In search of its radical transformation process

CHUMA Hiroyuki  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
November 2009  09-J-033

Do large scale investments improve corporate performance?

TANAKA Kenji  (DEVELOPMENT BANK OF JAPAN Inc.)
MIYAGAWA Tsutomu  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
November 2009  09-J-032

Managerial and Policy Agenda for Improving Japanese R&D: Inventors' views

NISHIMURA Junichi  (Hitotsubashi University)
Tingting Wang  (Hitotsubashi University)
NAGAOKA Sadao  (Research Counselor, RIETI)
October 2009  09-J-031

Proposals for the Environment and Trade to the WTO

YAMASHITA Kazuhito  (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
October 2009  09-J-030

Economic Analysis of the Environment and Trade (2)
- Cross-border or global environmental problems and trade -

YAMASHITA Kazuhito  (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
October 2009  09-J-029

Economic Analysis of the Environment and Trade (1)
- Environmental policies and trade policies -

YAMASHITA Kazuhito  (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
October 2009  09-J-028

Legal Analysis of the Environment and Trade

YAMASHITA Kazuhito  (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
October 2009  09-J-027

Assessment of Policies of Local Public Corporations to Improve Business Efficiency - The Case of Niigata Prefecture's Bureau of Public Enterprise Management Reform Program (Industrial Water Project and Electricity Project) -

KAINOU Kazunari  (Fellow, RIETI)
October 2009  09-J-026

How Were Monetary Polices Implemented before and after the Showa Depression?
- Interpretation based on the Taylor Rule and the McCallum Rule -

HARADA Yutaka  (Daiwa Institute of Research Holdings)
SATO Ayano  (Takasaki City University of Economics)
September 2009  09-J-025

Changes of Industrial Structure and Post-war Economic Growth in Japan

YOSHIKAWA Hiroshi  (Research Counselor)
MIYAGAWA Shuko  (Research Assistant, RIETI)
September 2009  09-J-024

Main Bank Relationships in Japan: From monitoring to risk hedging

HIROTA Shinichi  (WASEDA University)
August 2009  09-J-023

Spatial Structure of Cities and Distribution of Retail Sales - Analysis based on a Potential NEG Model

NAKAMURA Ryohei  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
TAKATSUKA Hajime  (Kagawa University )
August 2009  09-J-022

White Collar Exemption and Working Conditions: Impact of overtime regulations on hours worked and hourly wages

KURODA Sachiko  (the University of Tokyo)
YAMAMOTO Isamu  (Keio University)
August 2009  09-J-021

The Current Status of SME Financing under the Financial Crisis:
A summary of the Survey on the Status of Transactions between Businesses and Financial Institutions (Feb. 2008) and the Survey on the Status of Transactions between Businesses and Financial Institutions following the Financial Crisis (Feb. 2009).

UESUGI Iichiro  (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
UCHIDA Hiroshi (Kobe University)
OGURA Yoshiyuki (Ritsumeikan University)
ONO Arito (Mizuho Research Institute Ltd.)
XU Peng (Hosei University)
TSURUTA Daisuke (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)
NEMOTO Tadanobu (Chuo University)
HIRATA Hideaki (Hosei University)
YASUDA Yukihiro (TOKYO KEIZAI UNIVERSITY)
YAMORI Nobuyoshi (Nagoya University)
WATANABE Wakou (Keio University)
HOTEI Masaki (Hitotsubashi University)
July 2009  09-J-020

Knowledge Base of Software Innovation

SUZUKI Jun  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
July 2009  09-J-019

Productivity Disparities Between Self-Employed Workers and Employees

TOKUI Joji  (Shinshu University)
MAKINO Tatsuji  (Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
TAKAHASHI Yoko  (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
June 2009  09-J-018

Pluralistic Evolution of the Japanese-Style Enterprise System: Toward the Hybrid Model

MIYAJIMA Hideaki  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
June 2009  09-J-017

IT Innovation and Economic Growth: The importance of Moore's Law in productivity from a macro perspective

MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
June 2009  09-J-016

Quantitative Assessment and Analysis of the Household Electricity Rates System

KAINOU Kazunari  (Fellow, RIETI)
June 2009  09-J-015

Household Consumption and Long-Term Structural Changes in Regional Retail and Service Industries

KAINOU Kazunari  (Fellow, RIETI)
June 2009  09-J-014

Determinants of Currency Invoicing in Japanese Exports: A firm-level analysis

ITO Takatoshi  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
KOIBUCHI Satoshi  (Chiba University of Commerce)
SATO Kiyotaka  (Yokohama National University)
SHIMIZU Junko  (Senshu University)
June 2009  09-J-013

Rise of China and Its Neighborhood Diplomacy - Implications for Japanese foreign policy

TAKAHARA Akio  (the University of Tokyo)
June 2009  09-J-012

Settlement Between Electric Transmission Companies under the Point of Connection Tariff or "Postal Stamp" System

HATTA Tatsuo  (Faculty Fellow,RIETI)
June 2009  09-J-011

Financial Analysis of the Efficient and Effective Development and Operation of Ports and Harbors: Structural analysis of development, regulation and operation

AKAI Nobuo  (Faculty Fellow)
UEMURA Toshiyuki  (Kwansei Gakuin University)
SAWANO Koichiro  (Nagoya City University)
TAKEMOTO Toru  (Tezukayama University)
YOKOMI Muneki  (Osaka University of Commerce)
May 2009  09-J-010

Productivity Shocks and National Food Security for Japan

TANAKA Tetsuji  (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
HOSOE Nobuhiro  (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)
May 2009  09-J-009

Evaluation and Allocation of Resources in Higher Education: The Potential and Challenges of Performance-Based Funding

TANAKA Hideaki  (Institute of Economic Research)
May 2009  09-J-008

Internal Governance and Financial Operation of National Universities: Does governance reform after incorporation improve university management?

AKAI Nobuo  (Faculty Fellow)
NAKAMURA Yoshihiro  (Construction Research Institue)
May 2009  09-J-007

Discussion of the Financial Systems of National Universities: Structural analysis of subsidies for operating expenses

AKAI Nobuo  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
NAKAMURA Yoshihiro  (Construction Research Institue)
SENOH Wataru  (Heisei International University)
May 2009  09-J-006

Do Mergers Improve Corporate Performance? Analysis of corporate activities based on joint RIETI/METI survey

TAKIZAWA Miho  (Toyo Universiy )
TSURU Kotaro  (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
HOSONO Kaoru  (Gakushuin University)
April 2009  09-J-005