Daiji Kawaguchi

Testing the Morale Theory of Nominal Wage Rigidity (2007)

Kawaguchi, Daiji, Ohtake, Fumio

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...

Green Taxes and Double Dividends in a Dynamic Economy (2007)

Glomm, Gerhard, Kawaguchi, Daiji, Sepulveda, Facundo

This paper examines a revenue neutral green tax reform along the lines of the Double Dividend hypothesis. Using a dynamic general equilibrium model calibrated to the US economy, we find that...

Negative Self Selection into Self-employment among African Americans (2005)

Kawaguchi, Daiji

This paper attempts to shed light on the mechanism behind the lower rate of self-employment (SE) among African Americans compared with whites. Both consumer discrimination and discrimination in the...

Negative Self Selection into Self-employment among African Americans (2005)

Kawaguchi, Daiji

This paper attempts to shed light on the mechanism behind the lower rate of self-employment (SE) among African Americans compared with whites. Both consumer discrimination and discrimination in the...

Negative Self Selection into Self-employment among African Americans (2005)

Kawaguchi, Daiji

This paper attempts to shed light on the mechanism behind the lower rate of self-employment (SE) among African Americans compared with whites. Both consumer discrimination and discrimination in the...

Negative Self Selection into Self-employment among African Americans (2005)

Kawaguchi, Daiji

This paper attempts to shed light on the mechanism behind the lower rate of self-employment (SE) among African Americans compared with whites. Both consumer discrimination and discrimination in the...

Earnings of self-employed workers and peer effects among teenagers / (2002)

Kawaguchi, Daiji.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Economics, 2002.

The efficient moment estimation of the probit model with an endogenous continuous regressor

Daiji Kawaguchi, Hisahiro Naito

We propose an efficient moment estimator for the probit model with a continuous endogenous regressor. The estimation can be readily implemented using a standard statistical package that can estimate...

Negative Self Selection into Self-employment among African Americans

Daiji Kawaguchi

This paper attempts to shed light on the mechanism behind the lower rate of self-employment (SE) among African Americans compared with whites. Both consumer discrimination and discrimination in the...

Working Mothers and Sons' Preferences Regarding Female Labor: Direct Evidence From Stated Preferences

Daiji Kawaguchi, Junko Miyazaki

The labor force participation rate of women in Japan has increased in recent decades. To shed light on the mechanism behind this increase, we focus on the explanation that Fernandez, Fogli and...

Wage Distribution in Japan: 1989-2003

Ryo Kambayashi, Daiji Kawaguchi, Izumi Yokoyama

Diverging economic inequality has become a common focus of economic debate in developed countries. In particular, the recent experience of Japan has started attracting international attention. We...

Deferred Compensation: Evidence from Employer-Employee Matched Data from Japan

Kyoji Fukao, Ryo Kambayashi, Daiji Kawaguchi, Hyeog Ug Kwon, Young Gak Kim, Izumi Yokoyama

Wage increases, along with job tenure, are one of the most robust empirical regularities found in labor economics. Several theories explain these empirical regularities, and such theories offer sharp...

Testing the Morale Theory of Nominal Wage Rigidity

Daiji Kawaguchi, Fumio Ohtake

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...

Green Taxes and Double Dividends in a Dynamic Economy

Gerhard Glomm, Daiji Kawaguchi, Facundo Sepulveda

This paper examines a revenue neutral green tax reform along the lines of the Double Dividend hypothesis. Using a dynamic general equilibrium model calibrated to the US economy, we find that...

Male-Female Wage and Productivity Differentials: A Structural Approach Using Japanese Firm-Level Panel Data

Daiji Kawaguchi

In an attempt to explain male-female wage differential, I estimated the relative marginal productivity and relative wage of female workers compared to those of male workers using panel data of...

Analysis of the Survey Response Behavior: An experience from a pilot survey of the health and living status of the 50s and beyond in Japan

Hidehiko Ichimura, Daiji Kawaguchi, Satoshi Shimizutani

Exploiting a survey of aged population implemented in Tokyo, we examine the targeted individual's decision to respond the survey. The sampling of potential respondents is based on the resident...

The causal effect of graduating from a top university on promotion: Evidence from the University of Tokyo's 1969 admission freeze

Kawaguchi, Daiji, Ma, Wenjie

The strong correlation between having graduated from a selective college and success in the labor market has been robustly observed in many countries. There are two major explanations for this...

Wage distribution in Japan, 1989-2003

Ryo Kambayashi, Daiji Kawaguchi, Izumi Yokoyama

(19892003). We perform several decomposition analyses of changes in the distribution of the hourly wage. We observe that lower returns to education and years of tenure contribute to a diminishing...

Peer effects on substance use among American teenagers

Daiji Kawaguchi

The widespread use of illicit substances by American teenagers has attracted the interest of both the general public and academic researchers. Among the various factors that people believe influence...

Attrition Bias in Economic Relationships Estimated with Matched CPS Files

David Neumark, Daiji Kawaguchi

Short panel data sets constructed by matching individuals across monthly files of the Current Population Survey (CPS) have been used to study a wide range of questions in labor economics. Such panels...