Tomohiro Machikita

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

　

CURRICULUM VITAE (PDF)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Firms and Workers in Developing Economies.

Non-regular Workers and Organizations in International Trade.

Spatial and Size Distribution of Firms and Workers.

Search, Intermediation, Training, and Unemployment Duration.

Immigrant Technologists and Immigration Policy.


WORK IN PROGRESS

The Determinants of Size Distribution of Plants in the Early Stage of Agglomeration and Industrial Development: Japan, 1902-1919, (with Asuka Imaizumi, Kaori Ito, and Tetsuji Okazaki).

Search-theoretic Approach to Securing New Supplier: The Economies of Agglomeration in East Asia, (with Yasushi Ueki).

Voices from Periphery: A Model of Highway Construction and Agglomeration Economies, (with Ryusuke Ihara).

Employer Learning and Workplace Training with Promotion Dynamics: Evidence from Personnel data in Thai Manufacturing Industry.

　

DISCUSSION PAPERS (from EconPapers)

Linked versus Non-linked Firms in Innovation: The Effects of Economies of Network in Agglomeration in East Asia, with Yasushi Ueki, Published in IDE Discussion Paper. No.188. March, 2009.

Are Job Networks Localized in a Developing Economy? Search Methods for Displaced Workers in Thailand, Published in IDE Discussion Paper. No.84. December, 2006.

Career Crisis? Impacts of Financial Shock on the Entry-Level Labor Market: Evidence from Thailand, Published in IDE Discussion Paper. No.83. December, 2006.

PUBLICATIONS

“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 the Economics Bulletin, (2004), Vol.6, No.19, pp.1-9.


REFEREED CHAPTER IN BOOK

“Industrial Clusters and Workplace Training to Expand Innovation Capability: Evidence from Manufacturing in the Greater Bangkok” in From Agglomeration to Innovation: Industrial Upgrading in Emerging Economies, Akifumi Kuchiki and Masatsugu Tsuji (eds), Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming.

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. 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.