Reducing the burden of social security contributions for firms, unleashing their vitality, and
enhancing their total factor productivity (TFP) are crucial measures in China's pursuit of …

Although it has been verified that employment protection can bring multiple impacts on firms,
few studies have investigated whether and how employment protection affects firm emission …

The authors investigate the adjustments in employment of regular and non-regular workers,
exploiting the exchange-rate fluctuation and heterogeneous dependence on international …

Our study exploits the implementation of the Social Insurance (SI) Law as an exogenous
increase in labor protection to investigate its impact on capital structure for Small and Micro …

While firms in many developed countries increasingly rely on workers with nonstandard
contracts, the underlying economic factor distinguishing workers on standard contracts from …

Existing studies have relied on the notion of developmentalism to explain key aspects of the
tax policies in Japan and Korea. However, limited efforts have been made to explore these …

This study examines the impact of social insurance contributions on corporate
environmental investments. Adopting a quasi-natural experimental design based on the …

The establishment of a universal health insurance system has contributed significantly to
improving national health standards and increasing life expectancy. In Japan, where a …

This paper examines the impact of firms' social insurance burden on corporate stock
mispricing from the perspective of labor costs. The empirical results show that the social …

As the development policy for nursery facilities has become an important issue in Japan in
recent years, we examine the existence of strategic interactions among local governments …