Masaru Sasaki

Research Fellow

Osaka University

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Masaru Sasaki received his Ph.D. in economics at Georgetown University in 1998, and subsequently joined the World Bank and then the Asian Development Bank. After serving at these international organizations, he was appointed as lecturer at Department of Economics, Kansai University. He then moved to Osaka University in 2004. He has since then served there.

Among his research interests are determinants of unemployment and mismatch in the labor market. He works not only on theoretical and empirical studies but also on laboratory experiments. He develops laboratory experiments to study the implications on various search models. In addition, he is interested in various topics covering from health economics to personnel economics.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in February 2012.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7559
The Effect of Extended Unemployment Benefit on the Job Finding Hazards: A Quasi-Experiment in Japan
Tomohiro Machikita, Miki Kohara, Masaru Sasaki
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7104
Wage Growth through Job Hopping in China
Kenn Ariga, Fumio Ohtake, Masaru Sasaki, Zheren Wu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7077
Is Longer Unemployment Rewarded with Longer Job Tenure?
Miki Kohara, Masaru Sasaki, Tomohiro Machikita
published in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2013, 29, 44-56
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6861
An Experimental Test of a Committee Search Model
Yoichi Hizen, Keisuke Kawata, Masaru Sasaki
published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 61, 59-76
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6486
Horizontal Transfer and Promotion: New Evidence and an Interpretation from the Perspective of Task-Specific Human Capital
Masaru Sasaki, Katsuya Takii, Junmin Wan
published as 'Synchronized job transfer and task-specific human capital' in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2020, 56, 101075
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