Researcher Profile and Settings

Communication information

• URL

  http://ristem.doshisha.ac.jp/index.html

Research Areas

• Humanities & social sciences/Economic policy
• Humanities & social sciences/Economic policy
• Humanities & social sciences/Business administration

Education

• Osaka University, 1988
• Osaka University, Graduate School, Division of Economics, 1988
• University of California, Berkeley, 1986
• University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.in Economics, 1986
• Osaka University, 1981
• Osaka University, Graduate School, Division of Economics, 1981
• Osaka University, School of Economics, 1979
• Osaka University, Faculty of Economics, 1979

Academic Degrees

• Ph.D., University of California
• Master of Economics, Osaka University

Association Memberships

• Industrial Relations Research Association
• The Japan Society for Business Succession

Committee Memberships

• Chairman of Board of Trustees, 2009, The Japan Society for Business Succession, Academic society, The Japan Society for Business Succession

Awards & Honors

• Noteworthy Books in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics
  1998

Published Papers

• The labor market for Japanese Scientists and Engineers: Is the labor market externalized?
  Yoshifumi Nakata, Satoru Miyazaki, Satoru Miyazaki
  The Japan Labor Review, 8(3)95 - 117, 2011
• Non-working nurses in Japan: Estimated size and its age-cohort characteristics
  中田 喜文, Satoru Miyazaki
  Journal of Clinical Nursing, 17(12)3306 - 3316, 2008
• Nursing workforce: global challenges and solutions
  中田 喜文, Fumi Yasukawa, James Buchan
  Journal of Clinical Nursing, 17(12)3261 , 2008
• Joint Accounting System and Human Resource Management by Company Group
  中田 喜文
  Japan Labour Bulletin, 40(10)43596 , 2001
• Enterprise Bargaining and Social Contract in Japan
  中田 喜文
  Proceedings of the Forty-Sixth Annual Meeting, Industrial Relations Research Association Series, (1994)339 - 348, 1994
• "Education and Occupation : An Enquiry into The Relationship between CollegeSpecialization and The Labor Market in Postwar Japan, "
  中田 喜文
  Pacific Affairs, 65(1)50 - 67, 1992
• "Paid Employment among U. S. College Students : Trends, Effects, and Possible Causes, "
  中田 喜文
  The Journal of Higher Education, 62(1)25 - 43, 1991
• "Labor Market Experience of Teenagers with and Without High School Diplomas, "
  中田 喜文
  Economics of Education Review, 8(3)233 - 246, 1989
• "Characteristics of High School Students' Paid Jobs and Employment Experience After Graduation, "
  中田 喜文
  Lawrence Erlboum Associates, Inc.Adolescence and Work, 1989
• "The Demand for College Education in Postwar Japan, "
  中田 喜文
  Journal of Human Resources, 22(3)377 - 404, 1987
• An Analysis of Age-Seniority Wage Profiles : A Case Study of the Japanese Nenko Wage System
  中田 喜文
  University Microfiche Inc., 1987
• A survival analysis of patent examination requests by Japanese electrical and electronic manufacturers
  Yoshifumi Nakata, Xingyuan Zhang
  Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 21(1)31 - 54, Jan. 2012, English, Research paper (scientific journal)
• Nurses' pay in Japan: market forces vs. institutional constraints
  Yoshifumi Nakata, Satoru Miyazaki
  JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING, WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC, 20(1-2)4 - 11, Jan. 2011, English, Research paper (scientific journal)
• Editorial: Paying nurses: a cross-country comparison
  Yoshifumi Nakata, James Buchan
  JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING, WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC, 20(1-2)1 - 3, Jan. 2011, English, Research paper (scientific journal)
• Increasing labor flexibility during the recession in Japan: The role of female workers in manufacturing
  Yoshi-Fumi Nakata, Satoru Miyazaki
  Labor in the Era of Globalization, Cambridge University Press, 191 - 210, 01 Jan. 2009, English
• Has Japanese enterprise changed?
  Yoshi-Furni Nakata
  ASIAN BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT, PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LTD, 6(S1)S5 - S8, Dec. 2007, English
• Has lifetime employment become extinct in Japanese enterprise? An empirical analysis of employment adjustment practices in Japanese companies
  Yoshi-Fumi Nakata, Satoru Miyazaki
  ASIAN BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT, PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LTD, 6(S1)S33 - S56, Dec. 2007, English, Research paper (scientific journal)
• Has work motivation among Japanese workers declined?
  Tetsushi Fujimoto, Yoshi-Fumi Nakata
  ASIAN BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT, PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LTD, 6(S1)S57 - S88, Dec. 2007, English, Research paper (scientific journal)
• Employment and wages of female Japanese workers: Past, present, and future
  YF Nakata, R Takehiro
  INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, BLACKWELL PUBLISHERS, 41(4)521 - 547, Oct. 2002, English, Research paper (scientific journal)
• The transformation of the Japanese employment system - Nature, depth, and origins
  Lincoln, JR, Y Nakata
  WORK AND OCCUPATIONS, SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 24(1)33 - 55, Feb. 1997, English, Research paper (scientific journal)
• THE AGE-WAGE PROFILE AND STRUCTURAL-CHANGE IN THE JAPANESE LABOR-MARKET FOR MALES, 1964-1982
  C MOSK, YF NAKATA
  JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCES, UNIV WISCONSIN PRESS, 20(1)100 - 116, 1985, English, Research paper (scientific journal)

Misc

• The Japanese Software Industry: What Went Wrong And What Can We Learn From It?
  Nakata,Yoshifumi, Cole, Robert
  California Management Review, 57(1)16 - 43, 2014, English
• Why do Japanese companies file patents in China? Revisited
  Xingyuan Zhang, Yoshifumi Nakata
  Journal of Science and Technology Policy in China, 4(2)119 - 135, Jul. 2013, English
• Have Japanese Engineers Changed?
  The Japanese Journal of Labour Studies, 53(1)30 - 41, 2011
• Performance and Job Satisfaction of Engineers
  (83)22 - 28, 2009
• Japanese Engineers' Pay in comparison to that of American Counterparts
  Denki Rengo NAVI, (25)16 - 24, 2009
• Estimates of Non-Working Nurses and Characteristics of Their Cohort/age Distribution
  (2343)29 - 37, 2008
• Recent Decline of Engineers' Motivation and the Role of Labor Union to Counter this trend
  Denki Rengo NAVI, (13)43504 , 2007
• Human Resource Development through Indutry-Government-Academia Collaboration :The Role of Academia
  Journal of International Industrial Relations, (24)69 - 71, 2005
• Synthetic Research on Technology, Enterprise and Competitiveness
  Journal of International Industrial Relations, (23)55 - 56, 2004
• NPO and Employment in Japan
  Japanese Journal of Research on Household Economics, (61)38 - 49, 2004
• Not entered
  The Japanese Journal of Labour Studies, (501)81 - 84, 2002
• The State of NPO Labor Market in Japan
  Doshisha Graduate School of Policy and Management Review, 3(1)15 - 34, 2002
• What will Employment Structural Change Bring?
  Kansai Keikyo, 52(2)43563 , 2002
• The State of Male-Female Wage differentials
  Japanese Journal of Research on Household Economics, (54)26 - 33, 2002
• Japanese Wage System in 21st Century
  Chiginkyo Geppou, (494)17 - 24, 2001
• Is Long term Stable Employment Myth?
  Chingin Jijyo, (2372)62 - 66, 2000
• Joint Accounting System and Human Resource Management by Company Group
  The Japanese Journal of Labour Studies, (483)18 - 33, 2000
• What's Wage?
  (2304)43633 , 1997
• Inter-Firm Wage Differentials in Japan
  The Mnothly Journal of The Japan Institute of Labour, (450(10))13 - 26, 1997
• Chapter6 : An Analysis of Wage and Productivity of Japanese White Colar Workers
  91 - 104, 1995
• Equal Emploment Opportunity Between Male and Female Workers and Gender Wage Differentials
  26112 - 117, 1994
• Book Review the Influence of the Enterprise Union at the Shopfloor Level
  The Monthly Journal of The Japan Institute of Labour, 36(10)49 - 51, 1994
• Chapter4, Canada
  135 - 186, 1994
• Income Distribution in Japan-An Expedition of New Income Distribution Rule in a Matured Society
  KIIIR(国際産研), (8-9)43758 , 1994
• A Comparative Analysis of Employment Stability : The United States and Japan
  Social Science Review, (40)35 - 81, 1990
• A Comparison of Labour Frorce Characteristics : U. S. vs. JAPAN
  (99)34 - 40, 1989
• "Measuring Job Attachment : A Comparative Approach, "
  Annual Report of Japan Society for Personnel and Labor Research, (18)46 - 52, 1988

Books etc

• Why Do Japanese Companies File Patents in China?
  NAKATA Yoshifumi
  Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, Joint author, 191-217, Scholarly book
• Have Japanese Engineers Changed?
  NAKATA Yoshifumi
  Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, Joint author, 88-108, Scholarly book
• Have Japanese Firms Changed? :The Lost Decade
  NAKATA Yoshifumi
  Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, Joint author, 1-315, Scholarly book
• People who create technology of tomorrow
  NAKATA Yoshifumi
  2009, Sole author, 1-41, Scholarly book
• Management that creates high performing engineers
  NAKATA Yoshifumi
  2009, Joint author, 125-144, Scholarly book
• Japanese Engineers :performance and compensation
  NAKATA Yoshifumi
  2009, Joint author, 21-42, Scholarly book
• Creating High Performing Engineers
  NAKATA Yoshifumi
  2009, Joint author, 1-176, Scholarly book
• Increasing Labor Flexibility in Japan: The Role of Female Workers in Manufacturing
  NAKATA Yoshifumi
  Cambridge University Press, 2009, Joint author, 191-210, Scholarly book
• Techonology management training in Japan: Governmanet initiatives and their effects
  NAKATA Yoshifumi
  Oxford University Press,Recovering from Success, 2006, Joint author, 271-285, Scholarly book
• Strategic Motivation Management of R&D Engineers
  NAKATA Yoshifumi
  2006, Sole author, 281-294, Scholarly book
• Total Labor Costs and the Employment Adjustment Behavior of Large Japanese Firms
  NAKATA Yoshifumi
  University of Chicago Press, Labor Market and Firm Benefit Policies in Japan and the United States, 2003, Joint author, 135-155, Scholarly book
• Reduction of Regular Employment and Increase of Non-Regular Employment
  NAKATA Yoshifumi
  2002, Joint author, 81-102, Scholarly book
• Mechanism of Restructuring and Job Changes
  NAKATA Yoshifumi
  2002, Joint author, 1-294, Scholarly book
• Employment adjustment of Japanese firms: Effects of fluctuated labor cost and sales
  NAKATA Yoshifumi
  Japan Economic News Paper (Nikkei), 2001, Scholarly book
• Trends and Developments in Japanese Employment Relations in the 1980s & 1990s
  NAKATA Yoshifumi
  『Employment Relations: Individualisation and union exclusion』,Federation Press,, 1999, Scholarly book
• Date Analysis for Policy and Management
  NAKATA Yoshifumi
  1998, Scholarly book
• "Canada : Canadian Wage Differentials with Special Atlention to its Occupational Age-Wage Profle
  NAKATA Yoshifumi
  Wage Differentials : An International Comparison Macmillan Press, 1998, Scholarly book
• "Factor Analysis of Japanese Gender Wage Differentials"
  NAKATA Yoshifumi
  1997, Scholarly book
• Work and Pay in the United States and Japan
  NAKATA Yoshifumi, Clair Brown
  Oxford University Press, 1997, Joint author, 1-234, Scholarly book
• "Occupation and Wage Determination, " in Toshiaki Tachibanaki eds, Evaluation, Promotion, and Wage Determination
  NAKATA Yoshifumi
  1992, Scholarly book
• "Labor Market Theories : Review
  NAKATA Yoshifumi
  1992, Scholarly book

Conference Activities & Talks

• Business Succesion of Kyoto Firms
  NAKATA Yoshifumi
  Supporting Network for Business Creation and Succession of Kyoto Firms, 2014, Kyoto
• Business Succesion of Kyoto Firms
  NAKATA Yoshifumi
  The Forth Annual Meeting of Japan Society for Business Succession, 2013, Kyoto

Research Grants & Projects

• An Analysis of Emerging Labor Market in Japan
  Scientific Research(B)(General), 1999 -2001
• Business Succession
  2007
• Career development of engineers
  2007
• A Comparative Analysis of Wage Determination with special attention on where it is negotiated.
• Analysis of Gender Wage differentials
• Characteristics of Japanese firms' employment adjustment: A Comparative Analysis

Social Contribution

• Policy Council on SME, 2011-2012
• The Japan Society for Business Succession, 2009

Mass Media Activities

• Newspaper, Business Succession : Lessons from Kyoto enterprises on the global issue, Japan Productivity Center News, Oct. 2013