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A fair housing audit is an important tool for measuring racial and ethnic discrimination in housing market, so they are … and a majority individual with equal qualification. This paper applies this survey technique to age discrimination in … discrimination encountered by elderly home-seekers, and argues the relation between age discrimination and residential segregation of …
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Using unique survey data which includes information on precautionary wealth and its target, we analyze the precautionary saving behavior of Japanese households. Our findings are: 1. Measures for income uncertainty have a positive influence on the target for precautionary wealth but not on...
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In this paper, I summarize Albert Ando’s seminal and ingenious work on the saving behavior of the elderly in Japan and … that the retired elderly in Japan dissave, in accordance with the life cycle hypothesis of saving, and that all of the … available data and evidence suggest that the life cycle hypothesis of saving is highly applicable in the case of Japan. …
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In this paper, I survey the previous literature on the saving behavior of the aged in Japan and then present some … survey data on the saving behavior of the aged in Japan that became available recently. To summarize the main findings of … the case of Japan. -- Age structure of the population ; aged ; aging ; consumption ; dissaving ; elderly ; households …
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-Friendly City" by Akita City Government in Japan, a member of the World Health Organization (WHO)'s Global Network of Age …
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social contexts: Japan, the United States, and China. This research uncovered three major findings. First, the speed of … lessens people's levels of anxiety about their older years in Japan and the United States. Third, living with a child does not …
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This paper analyzes the determinants of the wealth decumulation behavior of the retired elderly in Japan using unique … expected wealth decumulation rate of the retired elderly, at least in the case of Japan, even though both precautionary saving … burden of parental care may also affect the wealth decumulation behavior of the retired elderly in Japan. Given that parental …
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literature on household saving behavior in Japan (with emphasis on the author's own past research) to shed light on whether or … not the selfish life-cycle model applies in the case of Japan. In particular, we survey the literature on the impact of … almost all of the available evidence suggests that the selfish life-cycle model applies to a greater extent in Japan than it …
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The poor live paycheck to paycheck and are repeatedly exposed to strong cyclical income fluctuations. We investigate whether such income fluctuations affect risk preference among the poor. If risk preference temporarily changes around payday, optimal decisions made before payday may no longer be...
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insurance (LTCI), formal care, informal (family) care, and bequests. In our empirical analysis, we use micro data from the Japan …, conducted by Osaka University. Japan is an interesting case to analyze because a public LTCI system was introduced there in 2000 …. Our analysis shows that, in the case of Japan, if parents are eligible for public LTCI benefits, their children will be …
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