Economic Analysis of migrant workers admitted under the EPA program

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380322
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic policy
• Research Institution: Keio University
• Principal Investigator: GOTO Junichi 慶應義塾大学, 総合政策学部(藤沢), 教授 (70234987)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 外国人労働者 / 少子高齢化 / 看護・介護 / EPA

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of accepting nurses and elderly-care workers under the economic partnership agreement (EPA). Using general equilibrium model, the following findings are obtained: (i) it is not desirable to fill the vacancies of nurses and elderly-care workers with foreign labor admitted under the EPA program, because these jobs require high language skill; (ii) accepting foreign labor gives negative impact to host country unless the number of admission is extremely large (e.g., 10 to 20 million); (iii) it is not feasible to solve the shortage of nurses and elderly-care workers by the EPA program.

Free Research Field

国際労働経済学