Purpose Entrepreneurial activities are the outcome of various individual dispositional and
environmental factors. Taking both internal and external factors as the basic premise of …

Between 1975 and 1995, the singulate mean age at marriage in Japan increased from 24.5
to 27.7 years for women and from 27.6 to 30.7 years for men, making Japan one of the latest …

Childcare arrangements are key in women's ability to juggle motherhood and work outside
the home. As such, the study of access to childcare and its use is of great policy relevance …

Motivated by the rising importance of female self‐employment, this article develops and
estimates a two‐step empirical model to explain why married women choose self …

BACKGROUND It is well known that the provision of public childcare plays an important role
for women labour force participation and its availability varies tremendously across …

In Japan, unlike in most other industrialized societies, the decline in marriage rates has
been most pronounced among highly educated women. Theoretical interpretations of this …

I use data from a large nationally representative survey to examine the relationship between
women's educational attainment and the timing of first marriage in Japan. The results …

Résumé Cet article étudie l'effet de la prise en charge des enfants par les grands-parents
sur le comportement de fécondité de leurs enfants adultes à partir des données des …

This study compares the patterns of women's employment in four major Asian economies:
China, India, Japan and South Korea. It illuminates how the heterogeneous characteristics …

This paper finds that after controlling for the endogeneity of family structure, coresidence
with one's own parents or in-laws has a significant positive effect on Japanese married …