Ken Yamada

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

Working Papers

• Intertemporal substitution in the time allocation of married women, 2011.
• Family background and economic outcomes in Japan, 2011.
• Minimum wage in a deflationary economy: the Japanese experience, 1994–2003, with Ryo Kambayashi and Daiji Kawaguchi, 2011.
• Heterogeneity in returns to work experience: a dynamic model of female labor force participation, 2009.

Publications

• Labor supply responses to the 1990s Japanese tax reforms, 2011, Labour Economics.
• Estimating labour supply and time allocation by married Japanese men and unmarried Japanese women, 2008, Applied Economics Letters.
• The impact of minimum wage on female employment in Japan, with Daiji Kawaguchi, 2007, Contemporary Economic Policy.
• Intra-family transfers in Japan: intergenerational co-residence, distance, and contact, 2006, Applied Economics.
• Fact or fable? Misunderstanding or misspecification? Keiretsu, the main-bank system and the Japanese economy, 2004, Journal of Asian Economics.

Teaching

• BSc intermediate econometrics
• BSc labour economics
• MSc/PhD applied microeconometrics

Curriculum Vitae [pdf]