Rate My Professor Masahiro Yamagaki

Masahiro Yamagaki serves as Professor and President of Osaka University of Economics and Law. He earned his Doctor of Economics from the Doctoral Program at Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Economics. In his academic career at the university, which maintains faculties of Economics and Law, Yamagaki holds a prominent leadership position while continuing his scholarly contributions in the Economics Faculty. His teaching responsibilities include Social Policy and Research Guidance I and II, reflecting his expertise in these domains. Yamagaki is a member of the Society for Social Policy and the Economic Theory Society, underscoring his engagement with professional academic communities focused on economic and social policy issues.

Yamagaki's research specializations encompass social policy and labor economics, with focused interests in the theory of employment relations, labor-management relations, labor union movements, and dismissal regulations. His scholarly output includes several co-authored books that address key contemporary issues in labor and economic policy. These publications are: Labour Union Organization Expansion Strategy (Ochanomizu Shobo, 2006), Neoliberal Reform and the Japanese Economy (Mie University Press, 2008), Neoliberalism and Labor (Ochanomizu Shobo, 2010), and What to Do About Japanese Labor Policy – What Can Social Policy Do Now? Part II (Minerva Shobo, 2021). Additionally, he has published papers such as "Japanese-style 'Labor Unionism' Movement and Its Outcomes – Can Corporate Growth and Workers' Interests Be Identical?" in the Ohara Institute for Social Problems Journal (No. 498, May 2000) and "Japanese-style 'Labor Unionism' Unions' Participation in Management and Its Limits" in the Journal of the Society for Social Policy (No. 5, March 2001). Through these works, Yamagaki contributes to discussions on labor dynamics and policy frameworks in Japan.