Daiji Kawaguchi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3772812 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daiji Kawaguchi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daiji |
| FAMILY NAME | Kawaguchi |
| SIGNATURE | KAWAGUCHI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Tokyo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0595-9443 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Exemption and work environment
The Labor Standards Act of Japan requires employers to compensate employees based on hours worked, but exemptions apply to specific occupations with agreements between employers and employees. We assess the impact of being exempted on hours worked, earnings, and the physical and mental health conditions of employees. We find that, on average, exempt workers work longer hours and earn more than nonexempt workers, without hurting their health statu…
Skill, Productivity, and Wages
Firms frequently provide general skill training for workers. Theories propose that labor market frictions entail wage compression, generate larger productivity gains than wage growth to skill acquisition, and motivate a firm to offer general skill training, but few studies directly test them. We use unusually rich data from a temporary help service firm that records both workers’ wages and their productivity as measured by the fees charged to cli…
Robots and Employment
This paper studies the relationship between industrial robots and employment in Japan on the basis of a unique dataset that allows us to calculate the unit price of robots. Our model combines standard factor demand theory with a recent task-based approach to derive a simple estimation equation between robot prices and employment, and our identification strategy leverages heterogeneous applications of robots across industries and heterogeneous pri…
Employment Adjustments of Regular and Non-Regular Workers to Exogenous Shocks
The authors investigate the adjustments in employment of regular and non-regular workers, exploiting the exchange-rate fluctuation and heterogeneous dependence on international trade across firms as a source of exogenous variation. An analysis of panel data of Japanese manufacturers reveals that the appreciation of the Japanese yen spontaneously decreased the sales of exporters and the employment of non-regular workers, but it did not reduce the …
Koyō wa keiyaku
The title of Employment Is a Contract cannot be understood properly without an awareness of the commonly held perception that employment is not a contract in Japanese society. Instead, employment is considered a mutual trust relationship between employers and employees. This relationship hinges on established Japanese employment practices characterised by long-term employment, an upward-sloping wage curve until mid-career, and company-based union…
Estimating the residential land damage of the Fukushima nuclear accident
The changing and unchanged nature of inequality and seniority in Japan
Why Has the Fraction of Nonstandard Workers Increased? A Case Study of Japan
This paper explains the secular increase of nonstandard workers in Japan, whose share of employment increased from 17 to 34% between 1986 and 2008. Changes in labor force and industrial compositions account for one quarter of the increase of nonstandard workers. Product‐demand fluctuation and the introduction of information and communication technologies increased firms' usage of nonstandard workers, but its quantitative effects are limited. The …
Working mothers and sons’ preferences regarding female labor supply
Testing the Morale Theory of Nominal Wage Rigidity
This paper tests the morale theory of nominal wage rigidity, according to which firms resist making nominal cuts to workers' pay even in adverse economic conditions because such cuts hurt worker morale and productivity. The authors analyze data from an employer-employee survey they conducted in Japan in 2000. That year coincided with a rare spell of deflationary recession, which, the authors argue, is a good setting in which to study how nominal …
Peer effects on substance use among American teenagers
Working mothers and sons’ preferences regarding female labor supply
Peer effects on substance use among American teenagers
Estimating the residential land damage of the Fukushima nuclear accident
Why Has the Fraction of Nonstandard Workers Increased? A Case Study of Japan
This paper explains the secular increase of nonstandard workers in Japan, whose share of employment increased from 17 to 34% between 1986 and 2008. Changes in labor force and industrial compositions account for one quarter of the increase of nonstandard workers. Product‐demand fluctuation and the introduction of information and communication technologies increased firms' usage of nonstandard workers, but its quantitative effects are limited. The …
The changing and unchanged nature of inequality and seniority in Japan
Testing the Morale Theory of Nominal Wage Rigidity
This paper tests the morale theory of nominal wage rigidity, according to which firms resist making nominal cuts to workers' pay even in adverse economic conditions because such cuts hurt worker morale and productivity. The authors analyze data from an employer-employee survey they conducted in Japan in 2000. That year coincided with a rare spell of deflationary recession, which, the authors argue, is a good setting in which to study how nominal …
Peer effects on substance use among American teenagers
Working mothers and sons’ preferences regarding female labor supply
Testing the Morale Theory of Nominal Wage Rigidity
This paper tests the morale theory of nominal wage rigidity, according to which firms resist making nominal cuts to workers' pay even in adverse economic conditions because such cuts hurt worker morale and productivity. The authors analyze data from an employer-employee survey they conducted in Japan in 2000. That year coincided with a rare spell of deflationary recession, which, the authors argue, is a good setting in which to study how nominal …
Why Has the Fraction of Nonstandard Workers Increased? A Case Study of Japan
This paper explains the secular increase of nonstandard workers in Japan, whose share of employment increased from 17 to 34% between 1986 and 2008. Changes in labor force and industrial compositions account for one quarter of the increase of nonstandard workers. Product‐demand fluctuation and the introduction of information and communication technologies increased firms' usage of nonstandard workers, but its quantitative effects are limited. The …
The changing and unchanged nature of inequality and seniority in Japan
Estimating the residential land damage of the Fukushima nuclear accident
Koyō wa keiyaku
The title of Employment Is a Contract cannot be understood properly without an awareness of the commonly held perception that employment is not a contract in Japanese society. Instead, employment is considered a mutual trust relationship between employers and employees. This relationship hinges on established Japanese employment practices characterised by long-term employment, an upward-sloping wage curve until mid-career, and company-based union…
Employment Adjustments of Regular and Non-Regular Workers to Exogenous Shocks
The authors investigate the adjustments in employment of regular and non-regular workers, exploiting the exchange-rate fluctuation and heterogeneous dependence on international trade across firms as a source of exogenous variation. An analysis of panel data of Japanese manufacturers reveals that the appreciation of the Japanese yen spontaneously decreased the sales of exporters and the employment of non-regular workers, but it did not reduce the …
Skill, Productivity, and Wages
Firms frequently provide general skill training for workers. Theories propose that labor market frictions entail wage compression, generate larger productivity gains than wage growth to skill acquisition, and motivate a firm to offer general skill training, but few studies directly test them. We use unusually rich data from a temporary help service firm that records both workers’ wages and their productivity as measured by the fees charged to cli…
Robots and Employment
This paper studies the relationship between industrial robots and employment in Japan on the basis of a unique dataset that allows us to calculate the unit price of robots. Our model combines standard factor demand theory with a recent task-based approach to derive a simple estimation equation between robot prices and employment, and our identification strategy leverages heterogeneous applications of robots across industries and heterogeneous pri…
Exemption and work environment
The Labor Standards Act of Japan requires employers to compensate employees based on hours worked, but exemptions apply to specific occupations with agreements between employers and employees. We assess the impact of being exempted on hours worked, earnings, and the physical and mental health conditions of employees. We find that, on average, exempt workers work longer hours and earn more than nonexempt workers, without hurting their health statu…
Economics (9 works) · Labour economics (8 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (5 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (5 works) · Wage (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Macroeconomics (4 works) · Retirement, Disability, and Employment (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works)