This study examines the determinants for the index of psychosomatic symptoms in workers based on panel data. Furthermore, the estimations were made by classifying responses into physical and psychological categories. The main findings of this study indicate that a flextime system affects women’s psychosomatic symptoms. Moreover, people whose jobs are centered on manual labor tend to experience more severe psychosomatic symptoms. Additionally, working for small businesses leads to milder psychosomatic symptoms, and working hours affect men’s psychological symptoms.

The Japan Economic Policy Association held its 79th National Conference at Nagoya Gakuin University on May 28-29, 2022 under the theme "Economic Policy in the Post-Pandemic Society : its conception and problem" and the plenary session of the same theme. The three presentations presented at the session are published in this number. This report serves an outline of the purpose and program of the session as an introduction to the plenary session issue of the 79th National Conference.

In this paper, we will consider the objectives and goals of economic policy that are becoming ambiguous amid the growing uncertainty caused by Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine. The risks in the post-corona society are diverse, and the impact on the economy is enormous. In order to minimize the long-term costs of these risks, it is necessary to build a consistent and rational economic policy system that takes into consideration demographic change, environment and energy, and digitalization.

The Central Japan Economic Federation has compiled a proposal aimed at "setting out the direction of the overall strategy for socioeconomic activities in the Chubu region toward the realization of carbon neutrality in Japan in 2050," with a view to solving problems and achieving carbon neutrality in the post-pandemic era. This executive summary presents an overview of the proposal.

In this paper, we consider the modern era as an era of great transformation from the welfare state system to the post-welfare state system, and from the viewpoint of economic ethics, we discuss about the post-pandemic economic society. The movement toward a post-welfare state system is already taking place at all levels of the economy and society, and what is required now is to further promote this movement, shift the era from the modern to the post-modern and realize the thoughtful economic society.