This paper examines how adult-children decide time spent providing nursing care to their parents and their working time in the market. Utilizing a unique survey containing information both on adult-children and their parents in Japan, we clarify whether or not adult-childrenfs supply of informal...

This paper examines how Japanese wives react to their husbandsf involuntary job loss, and tests the existence of complementarity of a wifefs labor supply to her husbandfs. Utilizing panel data on Japanese households from 1993 to 2004, we found that wivesf labor supply is stimulated when husbands...

This paper examines whether or not a prolonged unemployment period can raise the quality of job matching after unemployment. We focus on job tenure as an indicator of a good quality job match after unemployment. We match two sets of Japanese administrative data compiled by the public employment...

This paper analyzes what adult children would do for their parents were they frail and in need of long-term care. Focusing on the special case of parents' illness, the paper then investigates altruism in Japanese children. Descriptive statistics show that about 30% of adult children living...

Exploiting the panel data structure of the Family Income and Expenditure Survey, compiled from 1989 to 1997 by the Japanese Bureau of Statistics, this paper explores how effectively idiosyncratic shocks are shared among consumers in Japan. Tests are conducted for the total consumption, together...

This paper analyzes what adult children would do for their parents were they frail and in need of long-term care. Focusing on the special case of parents' illness, the paper then investigates altruism in Japanese children. Descriptive statistics show that about 30% of adult children living...

This paper analyzes what adult children would do for their parents were they frail and in need of long-term care. Focusing on the special case of parents’ illness, the paper then investigates altruism in Japanese children. Descriptive statistics show that about 30% of adult children living...