Ken Yamada

Assistant Professor
School of Economics
Singapore Management University
90 Stamford Road, Singapore 178903

Working Papers

• Labor supply responses to the 1990s Japanese tax reforms, 2009.   abstract
• The minimum wage in a deflationary economy: the Japanese experience, 1994–2003, with Ryo Kambayashi and Daiji Kawaguchi, 2009.   abstract
• Heterogeneity in returns to work experience: a dynamic model of female labor force participation, 2009.   abstract
• Marital and occupational choices of women: a dynamic model of intra-household allocations with human capital accumulation, 2007.   abstract
• Sibling structure and the employment of married women: an investigation of time allocation and wages, 2004.   abstract

Publications

• Estimating labour supply and time allocation by married Japanese men and unmarried Japanese women, 2008, Applied Economics Letters.   abstract
• The impact of minimum wage on female employment in Japan, with Daiji Kawaguchi, 2007, Contemporary Economic Policy.   abstract
• Intra-family transfers in Japan: intergenerational co-residence, distance, and contact, 2006, Applied Economics.   abstract
• Fact or fable? Misunderstanding or misspecification? Keiretsu, the main-bank system and the Japanese economy, 2004, Journal of Asian Economics.   abstract

Teaching

• BSc labour economics   [syllabus]
• BSc intermediate econometrics   [syllabus]
• MSc/PhD topics in econometrics   [syllabus]

Curriculum Vitae

Updated: May 2009