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Overview

Takao Kato is affiliated with Colgate University in the United States and specializes in the social sciences, with a focus on subfields including education, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, gender studies, and public administration.

Their research primarily addresses topics such as labor market dynamics and wage inequality, gender, labor, and family dynamics, work-family balance challenges, labor movements and unions, retirement, disability, and employment, higher education research studies, and innovations in educational methods.

Kato has published in various respected venues, with frequent publications in the SSRN Electronic Journal, followed by contributions to Economic Inquiry, the Journal of Labor Economics, the International Journal of Training and Development, and the International Review of Applied Economics.

Recent scholarly work authored or coauthored by Kato includes:

  • Advising, gender, and performance: Evidence from a university with exogenous adviser-student gender match (2021, Economic Inquiry)

In addition to their solo work, Kato has collaborated with a range of coauthors, including Gabriel Burdín, Ryo Kambayashi, Yang Song, Anders Frederiksen, and Nina Smith.

Examples of recent papers by frequent coauthors that relate to similar topics are:

  • Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data (2024, Journal of Labor Economics)
  • Complementarity in Employee Participation Systems: International Evidence (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Do collective bargaining institutions crowd out discussion and implementation of firm-related training programs? Evidence from Japan (2020, International Journal of Training and Development)
  • Internal Promotion or External Hire? Staffing Management Positions When Employees Have a Seat in the Boardroom (2024, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Best Publications

  • The Productivity Effects of Employee Stock-Ownership Plans and Bonuses: Evidence from Japanese Panel Data

    Derek C. Jones;Takao Kato

  • CEO Turnover, Firm Performance, and Enterprise Reform in China: Evidence from New Micro Data

    Takao Kato;Cheryl Long;Cheryl Long

  • Executive Compensation, Firm Performance, and Corporate Governance in China: Evidence from Firms Listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges

    Takao Kato;Cheryl Long

  • The Productivity Effects of Participatory Employment Practices: Evidence from New Japanese Panel Data

    Takao Kato;Motohiro Morishima

  • Executive Turnover and Firm Performance in China

    Takao Kato;Cheryl Long

  • The End of Lifetime Employment in Japan?: Evidence from National Surveys and Field Research

    Takao Kato;Takao Kato

  • CEO COMPENSATION AND FIRM PERFORMANCE IN JAPAN: EVIDENCE FROM NEW PANEL DATA ON INDIVIDUAL CEO PAY*

    Takao Kato;Takao Kato;Katsuyuki Kubo

  • Executive Compensation, Firm Performance, and Chaebols in Korea: Evidence from New Panel Data

    Takao Kato;Takao Kato;Woochan Kim;Ju Ho Lee

  • Chief executive compensation and corporate groups in Japan: New evidence from micro data

    Takao Kato;Takao Kato

  • Quotas and Quality: The Effect of H-1B Visa Restrictions on the Pool of Prospective Undergraduate Students from Abroad

    Takao Kato;Chad Sparber

  • Adverse workplace conditions, high-involvement work practices and labor turnover: Evidence from Danish linked employer–employee data

    Elena Cottini;Elena Cottini;Takao Kato;Niels Westergaard-Nielsen

  • The Scope, Nature, and Effects of Employee Stock Ownership Plans in Japan

    Derek C. Jones;Takao Kato

  • Experiences, credentials, and compensation in the Japanese and U.S. managerial labor markets: Evidence from new micro data

    Takao Kato;Takao Kato;Mark Rockel

  • Efficiency in Employee-Owned Enterprises An Econometric Case Study of Mondragon

    Saioa Arando;Monica Gago;Derek C. Jones;Takao Kato

  • Assessing Mondragon: Stability & Managed Change in the Face of Globalization

    Saioa Arando;Mónica Gago;Takao Kato;Takao Kato;Derek C. Jones

  • Human Capital and Career Success: Evidence from Linked Employer‐Employee Data

    Anders Frederiksen;Takao Kato

  • Long-Term Employment and Job Security over the Past 25 Years: A Comparative Study of Japan and the United States

    Ryo Kambayashi;Takao Kato

  • Tournaments and managerial incentives in China's listed firms: New evidence

    Takao Kato;Cheryl Long

  • Work and family practices in Japanese firms: their scope, nature and impact on employee turnover

    Yoshio Yanadori;Takao Kato

  • Average employee tenure, voluntary turnover ratio, and labour productivity: evidence from Japanese firms

    Yoshio Yanadori;Takao Kato

Frequent Co-Authors

Derek C. Jones
Derek C. Jones Hamilton College
Nina Smith
Nina Smith Aarhus University

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