Emiko Usui Institute of
Economic Research Hitotsubashi
University Kunitachi,
Tokyo, 186-8603 Japan 臼井恵美子 〒186-8603 東京都国立市中2-1 一橋大学経済研究所 |
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Research
Publications
Motherhood
Penalty for Female Physicians in Japan: Evidence from a Medical School’s Alumni
Data, with Sachiyo Nishida, Takashi Oshio, Naoya Masumori, and Kazufumi
Tsuchihashi, BMC Health Services Research.
2024, 24:1183.
Social Security and Retirement
Around the World: Lessons from a Long-term Collaboration, with Coile
Courtney, Wise David, Börsch-Supan Alex, et al.
Journal of Pension Economics and
Finance. 2024:1-23.
Effects of Mandatory
Residencies on Female Physicians’ Specialty Choices: Evidence from Japan’s New
Medical Residency Program, with Tsunao Okumura and Yuko Ueno, Labour Economics, vol. 90, 102566, 2024.
Unraveling the Determinants of
Overemployment and Underemployment Among Older Workers in Japan: A Machine
Learning Approach, with Meilian Zhang, Ting Yin, Takashi Oshio, and Yi Zhang, Japanese Economic Review, 2024.
Female Labor Market
Conditions and Gender Gaps in Aspirations, with Teresa Molina, Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization, vol. 211, 165-187, 2023.
Employer
Learning, Job Changes, and Wage Dynamics, with Seik Kim, Economic Inquiry, vol. 59(3) 1286-1307, 2021.
The
Effects of Providing Childcare on Grandmothers’ Employment and Mental Health in
Japan, with Yuko Ueno, The Economic
Analysis, vol. 202, 125-147, 2021.
Chances of
Pregnancy after Dropping out from Infertility Treatments: Evidence from a Social
Survey in Japan, with Marie Hirakawa, Nahoko Mitsuyama, and Takashi Oshio, Reproductive Medicine and Biology, vol.
18, 2021.
How Does Informal Caregiving
Affect Daughters’ Employment and Mental Health in Japan? with Takashi
Oshio, Journal of the Japanese and
International Economies, vol. 49, 2018.
Breastfeeding
Practices and Parental Employment in Japan, with Miki Kobayashi, Review of Economics of the Household,
vol. 15(2), 2017.
Informal Parental Care
and Female Labor Supply in Japan, with Takashi Oshio, Applied Economics Letters, vol. 24(9), 2017.
Sharing Housework between Husbands and Wives: How to Improve Marital
Satisfaction for Working Wives in Japan, with Mayu Kobayashi, Miki
Kobayashi, and Tsunao Okumura, IZA
Journal of Labor Policy, vol. 5(18), 2016.
Are
Japanese Men of Pensionable Age Underemployed or Overemployed? with Satoshi
Shimizutani and Takashi Oshio, Japanese
Economic Review, Special Issue on Economics of Aging in Japan and other Societies, vol. 67(2), June 2016.
Intergenerational Transmission of
Skills and Differences in Labor Market Outcomes for Blacks and Whites, with Tsunao Okumura, Research
in Labor Economics, Special Issue on Inequality: Causes and Consequences,
vol. 43, 2016.
Occupational Gender Segregation in
an Equilibrium Search Model, IZA
Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 4(1), July 2015.
Do Parents’ Social Skills
Influence Their Children’s Sociability? with Tsunao Okumura, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, vol. 14(3), July
2014.
The
Effect of Pension Reform on Pension-Benefit Expectations and Savings Decisions
in Japan, with Tsunao Okumura, Applied Economics, vol. 46(14), February
2014.
Concave-Monotone
Treatment Response and Monotone Treatment Selection: With an Application to the
Returns to Schooling, with Tsunao
Okumura, Quantitative
Economics, vol. 5(1), March 2014.
Wages, Non-Wage
Characteristics, and Predominantly Male Jobs, Labour Economics, vol. 16 (1), January 2009
Job Satisfaction and the
Gender Composition of Jobs, Economics
Letters, vol. 99 (1), April 2008
Work Hours, Wages, and
Vacation Leave, with Joseph Altonji, Industrial and Labor Relations Review,
vol. 60 (3), April 2007
Severance Payments in
Equilibrium Unemployment, Economics
Letters, vol. 94 (3), March 2007
Chapter in Book
Labor
Force Participation of the Elderly in Japan, with Takashi Oshio, and
Satoshi Shimizutani, NBER book Social Security Programs and Retirement around
the World: Working Longer, Courtney C. Coile, Kevin Milligan, and David A.
Wise, editors, University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Health Capacity to Work at Older
Ages: Evidence from Japan, with
Satoshi Shimizunani and Takashi Oshio, NBER book Social Security Programs and
Retirement Around the World: The Capacity to Work at Older Ages, David A. Wise,
editor, University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Working Papers
Enhancing Women’s Representation in
Science, Plenary Lecture, 23rd Science Council of Asia Conference, November 30,
2024
Labor Market Outcomes of Highly Educated
Women in Japan: With a Focus on STEM Fields, with Yuko Ueno.
Gender Differences in Children’s
Extracurricular Activities: Parental Preference for STEM Activities for Sons in
Japan, with Rikiya Matsukura, Takashi Oshio and Yuko Ueno.
Challenges and Implications of Dual
Employment Among Physicians in Japan, with Sachiyo Nishida, Emi Akizuki, Ryuta
Kamekura, Marie Ogawa, Naoya Masumori, and Kazufumi Tsuchihashi.
Pension Expectations and Household
Portfolio Choice of the Elderly in Japan, with Tsunao Okumura.
How Do Age-Related Policy Reforms
Promote Employment among Older Adults in Singapore? with Jessica Ya Sun.
Beauty, Wages, and Client Discrimination
in China, with Mingjie Liu, Ting Yin, and Wenjun Zhao.
Papers in Japanese
「女性外科医を増やすためには?-新医師臨床研修制度の導入が女性医師の診療科選択に与えた影響」上野有子・奥村綱雄共著、『経済研究』2025年. コラム
「時間外労働の割増賃金率引き上げが労働時間と生活時間に与える影響」平河茉璃絵共著、『経済研究』76(2)、2025年10月. (English abstract: Overtime Pay
Reform and Its Influence on Japanese Work-Life Balance)
「残された男女間格差解消のために: ノーベル経済学賞2023 クラウディア・ゴールディン」『経済セミナー』736号、42-49、2024年
「新型コロナウイルス感染症の影響下におけるワーク・ライフ・バランス」佐藤繭香・松下美帆共著『経済研究』2022年10月. (English abstract: Work-life Balance,
Well-being, and Productivity with Remote Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic in
Japan) 労働政策研究・研修機構・「ビジネス・レーバー・トレンド2022年8・9月号」要約
「医師専門医資格取得の男女差と医療現場の課題」羽衣杉雄共著、2020年10月. (English abstract: Career
Development of Female Physicians in Japan: Gender Differences in Obtaining
Board Certification)
「母乳育児と親の働き方」(特集:保育・育児と就業に関する実証エビデンス)小林美樹共著『日本労働研究雑誌』No.707、2019年6月号.
「男女間の賃金格差はなぜ生まれるのか」『経済セミナー』702号、31-35、2018年6・7月
「妊娠知識が出産に対する主観的期待に与える影響」小林美樹共著『経済研究』 69(3)、2018年7月. (English abstract: Fertility
Knowledge and the Subjective Probability of Having Children)
「【書評】山本勳・黒田祥子『労働時間の経済分析』―超高齢社会の働き方を展望する―」『経済研究』68(1)、2017年1月
「親の働き方と子供の家庭教育」小林美樹共著『経済研究』 67(1)、2016年1月
「インタビュー 女性経済学者を訪ねて(第30回)若い人々に経済学の魅力をアピール 臼井恵美子さん」『経済セミナー』682号、5-8、2015年2月
「子どもの課外活動と母親の学歴および就業」(≪特集≫「くらしと仕事に関する調査」を用いた実証分析)小林美樹共著『年金と経済』32(2)、2013年7月
「多様な働き方の意義と実現性─経済学的アプローチから」(特集:非正規労働と「多様な正社員」)『日本労働研究雑誌』No. 636、2013年7月