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This study examined the factors that affect the retirement decisions of the middle-aged and elderly in Japan, focusing especially on their earnings, public pension benefits, and health status. Using two-year panel data from the JSTAR and applying the OV model proposed by Stock and Wise (1990a,...
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This paper utilizes historical information to explore the relationship between labor force participation of middle aged and old people and the disability program in Japan. In particular, we explore the time series dimension to identify what has determined the trend in disability program...
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countries. In the present study, we overview the employment trend of the elderly in Japan, and examine what factors have … less physically demanding jobs have allowed the elderly to stay longer in the labor force. However, elderly employment … been a key driver of the long-term trend change in elderly employment. A series of social security reforms have helped …
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We examine how the change in the trend of the elderly's employment rates has been associated with changes in incentives … institutional parameters and synthetic earnings profiles, and juxtapose the tax force measures and the elderly employment rates … security reforms has been associated with the recent recovery of the employment rates for men aged 60 years and over as well as …
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