The Japanese government has encouraged the opening of the domestic market to foreign workers under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) as a “special case” in order “to promote the trade relationship between Japan and the countries that sign the agreement” since 2008. According to the literature, the introduction of nurses and care workers is not at all economical. Many empirical studies indicate that the costs of accepting EPA candidates is crucial for accepting institutions. In this study, the authors developed a multiple regression model for the economic and psychological burden of EPA and evaluated the goodness of fit of the model by comparing hospitals and care facilities. The multiple regression analysis indicated a good fit model for hospitals, but not for care facilities. The authors speculate that there are some differences in management between hospitals and care facilities that should be considered in interpreting this phenomenon.

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日本接受EPA候选人对医院和护理设施的经济和心理负担

自 2008 年以来，日本政府一直鼓励根据经济伙伴协定 (EPA) 向外国工人开放国内市场作为“特例”，以“促进日本与签署该协议的国家之间的贸易关系”。 据就文献而言，引进护士和护理人员一点也不经济。许多实证研究表明，接受 EPA 候选人的成本对于接受机构至关重要。在本研究中，作者为 EPA 的经济和心理负担开发了多元回归模型，并通过比较医院和护理设施来评估模型的拟合优度。多元回归分析表明模型适合医院，但不适用于护理机构。