Books

Books in English

The following are books that include results that use the panel data from the PDRC.

1) OECD (2008) ”Growing unequal ? --Income Distribtuion and Poverty in OECD Countries
Chapter 6: Does Income Poverty Last Over Time? Evidence from Longitudinal Data.
Researchers at PDRC (Atsuhiro Yamada and Kayoko Ishii) provided an analysis of income dynamics of Japan using our panel data, KHPS.

2) OECD (2015) "Employment Outlook 2015"
Chapter 4: The quality of working lives: Earnings mobility, labour market risk and long-term inequality.
Our panel data, KHPS, was used in an international comparison of an analysis of earning dynamics.

3) OECD (2015) "In It Together -- Why Less Inequality Benefits All."
Chapter4: Non-standard Work, Job Polarization and Inequality.
Researchers at PDRC (Yoshio Higuchi and Kayoko Ishii) provided the results for Japan in an international comparison of non-standard work style and income inequality using our panel data, JHPS.

Books in Japanese

The following are books that use data from the KHPS.

The Dynamism of Household Behavior in Japan I: Characteristics of Keio Household Panel Survey and Analysis of Housing, Employment, and Wage

Edited by Yoshio Higuchi, the COE program at Keio University
August 2005/A5 special size/320 pages/\3,570
ISBN: 978-4-7664-1180-5 (Japanese version only)
Brief overview
This book analyzes household behavior using a large-scale panel survey of 4,000 households across the country (7,000 people). It defines the Japanese economy by describing the transformation of Japanese households. It clarifies the realities of people’s way of working and living, such as effects of the leasehold system, home-purchase and wives’ employment, job-hoppers and their employment, marriage and childbirth, effects of career change on young people, IT skills and wage, and relationship between bonus and savings.

The Dynamism of Household Behavior in Japan II: Taxation Reform and Response of Households

Edited by Yoshio Higuchi, the COE program at Keio University
September 2006/A5 special size/328 pages/\3,360
ISBN: 978-4-7664-1293-2 (Japanese version only)
Brief overview
This book examines how taxation reforms will change our lives. It clarifies the changes in the consumption and employment behavior of people in association with the changes in the taxation process and laws through the discussions on the introduction of the system to carry over transfer loss, further reduction of living inheritance expenditures, improvement of childcare leave and childcare facilities, partial abolition of special spousal exemption, review of fixed-amount reduction of income tax, cigarette tax hike, and Home Appliance Recycling Law.

The Dynamism of Household Behavior in Japan III: Realities, Factors, and Effects of Mobility of Economic Disparity

Edited by Yoshio Higuchi/Miki Seko/the COE program at Keio University
September 2006/152x218 mm size/Soft cover/374 pages/\3,360
Brief overview
This book warns about the expanding disparity and immobilization of poverty. It multilaterally analyzes income and wages, working and living hours, human assets such as education and health, intergenerational transfer of donation, inheritance and economic assistance, and interregional disparity in the Japanese society. It discusses the current trends in Japan.

The Dynamism of Household Behavior in Japan IV: Change of Institutional Policy and Employment Behavior

Edited by Yoshio Higuchi/Miki Seko/the COE program at Keio University
September 2006/152x218 mm size /Soft cover/374 pages/\3,360
ISBN: 978-4-7664-1385-4 (Japanese version only)
Brief overview
Have the employment patterns of women and elderly people changed?
Law concerning Childcare and Caring Leave, Law concerning Stabilization of Employment of Older Persons, and Labor Standards Law were revised successively, while temporary tax cuts on income tax and home buyers’ tax breaks were reduced or curtailed. This book conducts an empirical analysis on the relationship between these system reforms and the change in the employment behavior of women and the elderly.
This is the fourth book that transmits the results of the KHPS that follow and analyze changes in human awareness and living using a large-scale panel data.

The Dynamism of Japanese Household Behavior V: Labor Market Quality Improvement and Employment Behavior

Yoshio Higuchi, Miki Seko, Hiroshi Teruyama and Keio/Kyoto Joint Global COE (eds.)
Sept. 2009 / modified A5 format / 282 pages/\3,570
ISBN: 978-4-7664-1658-9 (Japanese version only)
Brief overview
The quality of Japan’s labor market is declining!
This volume uses detailed data to depict labor market conditions including the decrease in regular employment and increase in non-regular employment, youth who cannot escape non-regular employment, the long working hours and mental health problems of regular employees, and the expanding mismatch between labor supply and demand by region, occupation and age. This volume also includes policy proposals for raising the quality of the labor market. The dynamic household behavior analyses are based on five years of Keio Household Panel Survey (KHPS) results.

The Dynamism of Japanese Household Behavior VI: Changes in Household Behavior under the Economic Crisis

Miki Seko, Hiroshi Teruyama, Isamu Yamamoto, Yoshio Higuchi and Keio/Kyoto Joint Global COE (eds.)
June 2010 / modified A5 format / 330 pages / \3,400
ISBN: 978-4-7664-1751-7 (Japanese version only)
Brief overview
Depicting the conditions of non-regular employment, unemployment and job-changing
With the global economic crisis, employment anxiety spread throughout Japan. What types of households were affected? How were they affected, and how did they respond? Moreover, have market efficiency and fairness been maintained? This volume presents multi-faceted analyses following individual households using detailed panel data through the latest survey in January 2009. The dynamic household behavior analyses are based on six years of Keio Household Panel Survey (KHPS) results.