692 research outputs found
Firm's demand for work hours: Evidence from multi-country and matched firm-worker data
No full textUsing information on Japanese, UK, and German workers' work hour and matched firms' characteristics, this paper investigates whether the number of hours worked is determined by demand-side factors, and tries to introduce one possibility to explain why Japanese tend to work longer hours than workers in other countries. Based on an empirical framework that each firm sets a minimum boundary of work hours, and workers hired by the firm are not able to work less than the minimum requirement, we found that the minimum requirement depends on the fixed costs of labor that the firm bears. Specifically, firms that tend to conduct labor hoarding during recessions, presumably because of higher fixed costs, require incumbent workers to work longer hours. We also found that the greater the workers' firm-specific skills, the more firms placed demands on these workers to work longer hours, given other things are equal. Since Japanese firms have long been considered to bear large fixed costs to train workers, we interpret the long work hour requirement as a rational strategy for Japanese firms to protect those workers that have accumulated high skills from dismissal. In other words, the long work hours of Japanese workers reflect the practice of long-term employment, a typical feature of the Japanese labor market.
Translation of a letter from Isamu Taniguchi to Yukio Mochizuki, October 4, 1977
No full textIn this letter, which was originally written in Japanese and found in item csudh_moc_0100, Isamu Taniguchi explains to Yukio Mochizuki that he does not think Mochizuki should be attempting to understand and research the situation surrounding the transfer of three Japanese internees' remains. This event is described in items: csudh_moc_0098 and csudh_moc_0097.Collection of notes, articles, correspondence, photographs, and term papers collected by Yukio Mochizuki, a student at CSU Dominguez Hills, while researching Japanese American incarceration and Japanese Peruvian internment during World War II
Interview of Isamu Kurotobi, August 31, 1977
No full textNine pages of notes from the interview of Mr. Isamu Kurotobi, which was conducted by Yukio Mochizuki. Mr. Kutoboi was actually born in Peru in 1919, however he lived in Japan through High School. In this interview, Kurotobi and Mochizuki discuss the sequence of events and government actions before, during, and after the war from Mr. Kurotobi's personal experience and perspective.Collection of notes, articles, correspondence, photographs, and term papers collected by Yukio Mochizuki, a student at CSU Dominguez Hills, while researching Japanese American incarceration and Japanese Peruvian internment during World War II
Estimating Frisch Labor Supply Elasticity in Japan
No full textUsing Japanese data from the 1990s aggregated by prefecture, age group, and sex, we estimate Frisch labor supply elasticity, which has been seldom estimated in Japan. The change in labor supply can be decomposed into two labor-supply behaviors: extensive margin, indicating workersf entry and exit from the labor market; and intensive margin, indicating changes in hours of work in response to a wage change. Our estimates of the Frisch elasticity on the extensive and intensive margins combined are in the range of 0.2 to 0.7 for males, 1.3 to 1.5 for females, and 0.7 to 1.0 for both sexes. Our estimates of the Frisch elasticity on only the intensive margin are in the range of 0.1 to 0.2 for all three categories. These results suggest that extensive margin explains the bulk of labor-supply changes in Japan. As for the changes in the estimates of the Frisch elasticity in Japan from the 1990s, it has been either unchanged or in a declining trend on the extensive and intensive margins combined, either unchanged or in a slight rising trend on only the intensive margin, and in a declining trend on only the extensive margin.Labor supply, Frisch elasticity, Extensive margin, Intensive margin
Letter from Donald Hata to Isamu Kurotobi, August 29, 1977
No full textThis letter, which was mentioned in item: csudh_moc_0018, introduced Hata's student, Yukio Mochizuki to Mr. Isamu Kurotobi. He explains that Mochizuki had already interviewed Kurotobi's wife and mother-in-law. These interviews are part of Mochizuki's research and independent study that he is conducting with Dr. Hata.Collection of notes, articles, correspondence, photographs, and term papers collected by Yukio Mochizuki, a student at CSU Dominguez Hills, while researching Japanese American incarceration and Japanese Peruvian internment during World War II
My story life in fotos the years 1941-1948
No full textJoseph Isamu Fuchita's album with handwritten notes documenting his time at the Manzanar incarceration camp and his deployment during and after World War II.The Akamine and Fuchita Family Papers include letters, certificates, photographs, scrapbooks, high school yearbooks, and other materials related to the Akamine, Fuchita, and Yasumura families. Subjects in the collection include the Manzanar and Rowher incarceration camps, Koyasan Buddhist Temple, Buddhism, World War II, and Japanese American families, and other topics
\u3cem\u3eBoy Named Isamu\u3c/em\u3e (2021) by James Yang
No full textAuthor-illustrator James Yang imagines a day in the life of the artist Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) as a young child whose curiosity and sensitivity lead him to appreciate the aesthetic qualities of his surroundings.https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/iapc_thinkingstories_picturebooks/1000/thumbnail.jp
Beyond Buddhism (Book Review)
No full textReviewed Title: Beyond Buddhism, by J. Isamu Yamamoto. Downers Grove IL: Intervarsity Press, 1982, 141 pp
Letter from Yukio Mochizuki to Mr. Isamu Kurotobi, October 16, 1977
No full textIn this letter, which was written a month after Isamu Kurotobi and Yukio Mochizuki met in Los Angeles for an interview, Mochizuki asks a series of follow up questions. These questions center on Kurotobi's experience as a Japanese Peruvian during World War II.Collection of notes, articles, correspondence, photographs, and term papers collected by Yukio Mochizuki, a student at CSU Dominguez Hills, while researching Japanese American incarceration and Japanese Peruvian internment during World War II
Telegram from Isamu Kurotobi to Yukio Mochizuki, November 23, 1977
No full textThis telegram from Panama states that Mrs. Kurotobi had obtained residency in the United States but lost it because she resided abroad for too many years.Collection of notes, articles, correspondence, photographs, and term papers collected by Yukio Mochizuki, a student at CSU Dominguez Hills, while researching Japanese American incarceration and Japanese Peruvian internment during World War II
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