Researchers According to Title Area/Region Alphabetical Order Past Visiting Research Fellow

Researchers

MACHIKITA Tomohiro

Copenhagen, Research Fellow Sent Abroad

Research Field:
Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics

Tempoary Jobs and Organizations in International Trade.
Search, Intermediation, Training, and Unemployment Duration.
Knowledge Creation, Immigrant Technologists, and Immigration Policy.

Education / Research Experience

Professional Career:
Research Economist, Economic Integration Studies Group, Inter-disciplinary Studies Center, April 2007- present (with tenure)
Research Economist, Regional Integration Studies Group, Inter-disciplinary Studies Center, April 2006 - March 2007
Research Economist, Economic Integration Studies Group, Inter-disciplinary Studies Center, April 2007 - April 2012
Research Fellow Sent Abroad (Copenhagen), May 2012 -
CV（Last updated: July 18, 2011）
Working Paper

Major Works

“The Impacts of Face-to-face and Frequent Interactions on Innovation: Upstream-Downstream Relations,” (with Yasushi Ueki), forthcoming in International Journal of Institution and Economies.
“Firm-level Analysis of Globalization: A Survey of the Eight Literatures,” (with Kazunobu Hayakawa and Fukunari Kimura), forthcoming in Journal of Economic Surveys.
“Innovations in Linked and Non-Linked Firms: Effects of Variety of Linkages in East Asia,” (with Yasushi Ueki) published in International Journal of Institution and Economies, (2011), Vol.3, No.1, pp.77-102.
“Voting for Highway Construction in Economic Geography,” (with Ryusuke Ihara), published in the Annals of Regional Science, (2007), Vol. 41, No.4, pp.951-966.
"Is Learning by Migrating to a Megalopolis Really Important? Evidence from Thailand," published in the Kyoto Economic Review, (2006), Vol. 75, No. 1, pp. 35-61.
"A New Empirical Regularity in World Income Distribution Dynamics, 1960-2001," (with Roki Iwahashi), published in Economics Bulletin, (2004), Vol. 6, No. 19, pp. 1-9

Other Papers

"Interactions among Engineers as Pathways for Technology Transfer in East Asian Production Networks: Perspectives from the Philippines and Viet Nam, (with Yasushi Ueki), Special Themes of Market mechanisms for facilitating South-South Cooperation in technology transfer in the Asia-Pacific region, Asia Pacific Tech Monitor, (2011), May-June.　
"Management of External Environment for Industrial Upgrading and Sources of New Technologies: Evidence from Middle Income Countries and Application to the Emerging Economies," (with Masatsugu Tsuji and Yasushi Ueki), Special Themes of Knowledge Management for innovation: Best practices, Asia Pacific Tech Monitor, (2010), September-October, pp.20-27.

Book Chapters

"International Migration and Economic Integration in East Asia" forthcoming in The Economics of East Asian Integration: A Comprehensive Introduction to Regional Issues, Masahisa Fujita, Ikuo Kuroiwa and Satoru Kumagai (eds), Edward Elgar, forthcoming.　
"Industrial Clusters and Workplace Training to Expand Innovation Capability: Evidence from Manufacturing in the Greater Bangkok" published in From Agglomeration to Innovation: Industrial Upgrading in Emerging Economies, Akifumi Kuchiki and Masatsugu Tsuji (eds), Palgrave Macmillan, December 2009.

Other Information

Contact Address

Research Economist
Institute of Developing Economies
Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO)
3-2-2 Wakaba Mihama Chiba, 2618545, JAPAN.
T +81-43-299-9758
F +81-43-299-9763
E machi(at)ide.go.jp

Short Bio

I am an academic economist from the Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO). I have joined IDE since April 2006. My first academic job was a research fellow at Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University from April 2004-March 2006. I also spent time as doctoral student at Kyoto University from April 2001-March 2004. I completed Ph.D. in Economics at Kyoto in March 2007. I also received M.A. from Kyoto University in March 2001 and B.A. from Science University of Tokyo in March 1999.

My field of concentration is Empirical Labor Economics and Industrial Development in Spatial Economy. I have focused on migration, job search-matching process, and the aggregate patterns of job and worker flows. Now I have become interested in transition from schooling to workplace training between locations of job availability. My research interests include the effects of economic integration on labor market rigidity; the relationship between formation of Chinatown and ethnic job networks; the effects of sorting workers and firms on regional wage disparity. I also have special interests in applied microeconomics in terms of spatial economy; price setting behavior, size distribution, and economic development.

Collaborations

I really enjoy collaborating to find an empirical regularity on spatial economy with two young economists; Ryusuke Ihara (Assistant Professor of Aomori Public College, Aomori) and Roki Iwahashi (Assistant Professor of Ryukyu University, Okinawa). Both of them and I have started the joint project since we were in graduate school of economics, Kyoto University. They are brilliant researchers in new economic geography and economics of education/development respectively. They have a flash of genius. Joint work with Roki is also cited by papers published in Physics Journal.

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