Faculty introduction

OKAJIMA Yuko 岡嶋 裕子
  • Professor
  • Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Faculty Profile
Research Field

Personnel Economics, Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Human Resource Management

Affiliated Academic Societies

Japan Association of Human Resource Management, The Academic Association for Organizational Science, The Japan Society of Educational Sociology, Japan Society for Research Policy and Innovation Management, East Asian Economic Association, Western Economic Association International, Academy of Management

Courses Taught

Introduction to Economics，Introduction to Microeconomics，Labor Ecnomics，Startup SeminarⅠ,Ⅱ，Research SeminarⅠ,Ⅱ,Ⅲ,Ⅳ，Economic Statistics，Data Science SeminarⅠ,Ⅱ,Ⅲ,Ⅳ, Human Resource Management (MBA)

Academic Degrees

Ph. D. International Public Policy (Osaka University）

Brief Biography

After graduating from the School of Commerce at Waseda University, she worked for private companies, including a Foreign(US)-affiliated consulting firm, a venture company (founder), a domestic consulting firm and a think-tank. After completing the master's and doctoral programmes at Osaka University's Graduate School of International Public Policy, she worked as an associate professor at Institute for Academic Initiatives, Office of Management and Plannning, Osaka University, before assuming her current position.

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Research Overview

Why do people work? What kinds of jobs make people happy? Why do some jobs pay well and others pay less? How can student experience be applied to work? ... My work involves using data and economics to study the skills of people, jobs and organizations. To interpret the data, my research involves fieldwork in actual workplaces and firms, and more recently experiments using vital data like EEG.

List of Researches
Academic Papers

1．"Do ‘Boss Effects’ Exist in Japanese Companies? Evidence from Subordinate–Supervisor Matched Panel Data", Yuko Okajima, Hisakazu Matsushige, Yuwei Ye, Asian Economic Journal, 35(1), pp57-75, Apr. 2021.
2．"A Panel Study of Restructure of HRM Systems and Measures, Supervisorsʼ
Behavior in Workplace, and Employee Satisfaction" OKAJIMA, Yuko, Japan Journal of Human Resource Management 15(1) pp38-56. Jun. 2014.
3．”The Effect of Funding Sources on Research Productivity by Academic Field: A Departmental-level Analysis of Seven Former Imperial Japanese Universities", Miki Miyaki, Yuko Okajima, Planning and Public Management, 44(2) pp46-51. May 2021.
4．”The Effects of Organizational Resilience on Communicatoin Barriers in Telecomunication: Organizational Management Under COVID-19 Pandemic"，Nov. 2023，Masato Sakaki, Youngjae Koh, Hidemi Otsuka, Yuko Okajima, HIroyuko Nakazono, Yasushi Hara, Hitotsubashi Review of Commerce and Management, 18(2)，pp. 39-49　
5．”The Effect of Kumon Method on Motivation for Learning: Evidence from Junior High School Student in Japan?" Yuko Okajima, Hisanobu Kakizawa, Wataru Senoh, Tomotaka Hirao, Hisakazu Matsushige, OSIPP Discussion Paper DP-2017-J-001-Rev. Mar. 2017

Message

Cool heads but warm hearts.

So said the economist Alfred Marshall. In work and research, the clarification and solution of various problems in society requires an approach with calm, rational thinking and warm hearts.

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