Women and the Labor Market in Japan: Our Challenges
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 | 12:45 – 1:45 PM (Lunch will be provided)
Room 890, Kravis Hall, Columbia Business School
(665 W. 130th St., New York, NY 10027)
Featuring:
Nobuko Nagase
Professor of Labor Economics and Social Policy, Ochanomizu University
Author, Women's Career and Family in Japan: Labor Practice, Gender Wage Gap, and Child-Rearing
Moderator:
Takatoshi Ito
Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Director, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, CJEB
Note: The seminar is part of CJEB’s Japanese Management Leadership Program.
About the Event:
Professor Nagase will talk about her new book, Women's Career and Family in Japan: Labor Practice, Gender Wage Gap, and Child-Rearing, which follows Japanese women's careers and families mainly from the 1980s to the present, including their challenges and achievements and the change that came through the years. Selected by Nikkei as one of the Ten Best Economics Books of the Year to Read by Economists, the book includes much of Professor Nagase's empirical work on women's market and non-market work in Japan and the governmental policies and offers an analysis of the Japanese employment model from a women's perspective. Professor Nagase will provide insight into why Japanese women's earnings remain low despite their top-ranking scores in PISA and PIAAC studies.
Biography:
Nobuko Nagase is a Professor of Labor Economics and Social Policy at Ochanomizu University. A labor economist, Professor Nagase gained her PhD in economics from the University of Tokyo in 1995. She has written about work, family, and social policy from the Asian perspective, comparing Japan with other East Asian and Western economies. She is currently a member of the Central Social Insurance Medical Council. She served as a member of the Science Council of Japan (SCJ), a committee member of the Social Security Council on the Estimation of Public Pension of Japan, and a member of the Statistics Committee of the Japanese Government. She was also the Committee Chair for Promoting Gender Equality in Humanities and Social Sciences Research at SCJ. The results of her research have been published in various scholarly journals, including Japanese Economic Review, Journal of Population Problem, Econometric Review, Asian Policy Economic Review, and Quarterly Journal of Social Policy. From 2013 to 2015, she was an Abe Fellow and a visiting scholar at Harvard University and Cornell University. She was also a visiting scholar at the Australian National University in 2018. She recently authored Women's Career and Family in Japan: Labor Practice, Gender Wage Gap, and Child-Rearing.
Admission and Contact:
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Special Notes:
● This event is open to the public, and livestreaming won't be available.
● The seminar is part of CJEB’s Japanese Management Leadership Program.
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