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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Economics, 2002.
Thesis (M.S.)--University of Washington, 1995.
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
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...
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...
Daiji Kawaguchi, Ryo Kambayashi, Young Gak Kim, Hyeog Ug Kwon, Satoshi Shimizutani, Kyoji Fukao, ...
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...
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...
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...
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 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
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...
Daiji Kawaguchi, Junko Miyazaki
Female labor supply, Social norm, Japan, J12, J16, J22,