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Takao Kato is W.S. Schupf Professor in Economics and Far Eastern Studies, Colgate University. His works have been significant in advancing the field of Economics of participation, and is currently the Editor of the Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership. Kato has been also Research Fellow at IZA and TCER-Tokyo; Research Associate, CJEB (Columbia Business School) and CCP (Copenhagen Business School); Faculty Fellow and Mentor, Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing (Rutgers); and Senior Fellow, ETLA(Helsinki). Kato has held visiting professorships/fellowships in Japan (Tokyo, Hitotsubashi, Waseda, Keio, Osaka, Japan Institute of Labour Policy and Training), Korea (KDI School of Public Policy and Management), Australia (New South Wales), Denmark (Aarhus and Copenhagen Business School), and the U.S. (Stanford and Levy Institute). With Perter Kuhn, he founded Trans-Pacific Labor Seminar and has been playing a leading role in the community of labor economists in the Pacific Rim.