Working papers

• Multinational Production and Corporate Labor Share. (joint with Yukiko U. Saito). R&R at the Review of Economics and Statistics.
  • Slides

• Employers’ Unilateral Settlement of Dismissal Disputes (joint with Ryo Kambayashi and Kohei Kawaguchi).

• Commuting Zones in Japan. (joint with Taiyo Fukai, Daiji Kawaguchi, Yukiko U. Saito).

  • Press coverage: VoxEU

Work in progress

• Monopsony in a Two-sided Matching Market (joint with Suk Joon Son and Shintaro Yamaguchi)

• Rails, Risks, and Resilience: A Dynamic Spatial Equilibrium Model with Natural Disaster

• When Offshoring Threatens Jobs: Lifelong Education and Occupation Choice (joint with Lars Skipper)

• Robots on Sale: The Effect of Investment Promotion on Robot Adoption and Employment. (joint with Daiji Kawaguchi and Yukiko U. Saito).

Selected Publications & Accepted Papers

• Adachi, D. (2025). Elasticity of Substitution between Robots and Workers: Theory and Evidence from Japanese Robot Price Data. Journal of Monetary Economics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2025.103782
  • Previously circulated as “Robots and Wage Polarization: The Effects of Robot Capital across Occupations.”
  • Best paper award at the 19th GEP/CEPR Annual Postgraduate Conference.
• Adachi, D., Kawaguchi, D., & Saito, Y. U. (2024). Robots and employment: Evidence from Japan, 1978–2017. Journal of Labor Economics, 42(2), 591-634. https://doi.org/10.1086/723205
  • Final working paper version. Replication files.
  • Press coverage: VoxEU, World Economic Forum.