Social and Economic Systems Studies: The Journal of the Japan Association for Social and Economic Systems Studies
Online ISSN : 2432-6550
Print ISSN : 0913-5472
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  • Hajime KITA
    Article type: Article
    2024Volume 43 Pages 1-14
    Published: March 31, 2024
    Released on J-STAGE: September 10, 2024
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  • Go SHIMIZU, Sumiyo KANAOKA, Tatsuya DEGUCHI, Takenori TAKASE
    Article type: Article
    2024Volume 43 Pages 15-44
    Published: March 31, 2024
    Released on J-STAGE: September 10, 2024
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  • Yukihiko HARASHINA, Yoshinori SATO, Shingo TAKAHASHI
    Article type: Article
    2024Volume 43 Pages 45-80
    Published: March 31, 2024
    Released on J-STAGE: September 10, 2024
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  • Kenichiro Komori
    Article type: Article
    2024Volume 43 Pages 81-94
    Published: March 31, 2024
    Released on J-STAGE: September 10, 2024
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     Many measures are executed to control and prevent damage to infectious outbreaks and natural disasters. These measures are called Health Crisis Management (HCM). Evidence-based policy Making (EBPM), as a public policy approach, was discussed, but there are challenges in adopting HCM. in this research, I discuss how EBPM should be applied to HCM policy to improve its effectiveness and accountability.

     Other causes include natural disasters and this Basic Guideline noticed that “Regarding health crises caused by natural disasters, we will strive to promote comprehensive and systematic measures in accordance with the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare’s disaster prevention plan.” It can be said that the national government presents basic guidelines and coordinates among local governments through laws and ordinances, and local governments play a major role in implementing HCM. However, when implementing HCM, national and local governments find it difficult to respond when policy effects are little or no effect, or when they have never made this rehearsal.

     According to the Cabinet Office of Japan, EBPM is “Instead of relying on one-time episodes, policy planning should be based on information and data (evidence) that are important to measure policy impacts after clarifying policy objectives.” A logic model is a model of the logical cause-and-effect relationship that leads to the achievement of a certain policy, and this model is used for EBPM. But, Hansen said, “while we want to embrace evidence, the evidence seldom speaks for itself; typically, it requires a modeling or conceptual framework for interpretation.” In fact, the logic model is an execution management model and does not describe the mechanism by which policy is achieved. As such, EBPM should also explain the relationship between the evidence and the policy environment. As a corresponding method for such EBPMs challenges, I propose that an agent-based modeling/simulation and a gaming approach, and refer to considerations when use those approaches based on previous research. Furthermore, I suggest how prefectures would use these approaches in what sort of HCM policy for infectious outbreaks and natural disasters.

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  • ONUKI Yuji
    Article type: Article
    2024Volume 43 Pages 95-104
    Published: March 31, 2024
    Released on J-STAGE: September 10, 2024
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     [Onuki 2023] used open data on COVID-19 patients to estimate the relative risk of infection among physicians and nurses by sex and age group. They compared them with the same sex and age group of the general population, and covered the period from the third to the sixth wave of COVID-19 outbreak in Tokyo. In this paper, as a second report, estimates for the seventh wave period are presented, and the trends and patterns of relative risk by sex and age group across the first to seventh wave periods are analyzed.

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  • ― A Longitudinal Analysis Using a Poisson Gravity Model with Fixed Effects Methodology ―
    Kiyoaki ARAKAWA
    Article type: Article
    2024Volume 43 Pages 105-116
    Published: March 31, 2024
    Released on J-STAGE: September 10, 2024
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     As Japan‘s total population declines and the concentration of population in the Tokyo area becomes a significant issue, the government has been promoting migration to rural areas as a national policy. However, the majority of studies examining the relationship between interregional migration and its associated factors are restricted to cross-sectional analyses, and few studies focus on migration between municipalities. In this study, a longitudinal analysis was conducted utilizing a fixed-effects model, which uses origin-destination pair fixed effects and time-fixed effects with the Poisson gravity model. As a result, we identified that 11 socioeconomic variables from the origin and destination areas, including the total population, proportion of primary industry workers, land prices, and number of kindergartens of the destination region were associated with migration from large cities to rural areas.

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  • Toshiro Hirota
    Article type: Article
    2024Volume 43 Pages 117-134
    Published: March 31, 2024
    Released on J-STAGE: September 10, 2024
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     This paper attempts to clarify what patterns of organizational change processes can be found based on an evolutionary framework. What is unique to this evolutionary framework is that it asserts that two types of entities, the replicator as a genealogical entity and the interactor as an ecological entity, give rise to the evolutionary processes of variation, selection, and retention in the socio-economic domain. Based on this evolutionary framework, we aim to elucidate the dynamics of social and economic systems, and to clarify patterns of organizational change processes. Before clarifying patterns of organizational change processes, we examine what are the basic aspects of organizations that actually cause patterns of organizational change processes. Then, this paper clarifies three patterns of organizational change processes: the external selection pattern, the practices emergence pattern, and the entrepreneurship pattern. Furthermore, these three patterns of organizational change processes are compared with each other.

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