Jobs and the Future of Work
居家办公效率究竟如何？这项研究旨在寻找答案
Masayuki Morikawa
Masayuki Morikawa is the Vice President, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI). He joined the then Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in 1982 and has held a variety of positions at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), including as the Director of the Macroeconomic Affairs Division, Industrial Structure Policy Division and the Deputy Director-General of the Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Kyoto University. His area of expertise includes economic policy, industrial structure, and productivity analysis. He has published in several academic journals includingEconomics Letters, Energy Economics, Labour Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Small Business Economics. His recent book Productivity in Service Industries: Empirical analyses using microdata (Nippon Hyoronsha Co., Ltd. 2014) [in Japanese] was awarded the prestigious 57th Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science in November 2014.
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Jobs and the Future of Work
Are you more productive working from home? This study looks for answers
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of workers working from home (WFH) has been increasing rapidly. There has also been a rapid, parallel increase in research on WFH. We ...
Health and Healthcare Systems
How does working from home impact productivity?
Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, working from home (WFH) has been increasingly implemented in major advanced countries. Before the crisis, the percentage of workers participating...
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
How often do economic forecasters get it right?
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Emerging Technologies
How will robots affect jobs? Japanese companies say there's one key factor at play
Since the second half of the 1990s, productivity growth has accelerated in the US due to the Information Technology (IT) Revolution. However, the productivity effects of traditional types...
Business
How uncertainty over business conditions affects investment decisions
In recent years, advanced economies have experienced uncertainty shocks repeatedly, such as the Global Crisis, the Eurozone Crisis, and the ‘fiscal cliff’ in the United States (in 2012). ...
Trade and Investment
Why are service-exporting companies so productive?
Economic Growth