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This paper explores the extent to which older Japanese can potentially expand the labor supply, based on two analytic approaches: the Milligan-Wise and Cutler et al. methods. First, we examine how much older individuals could work if they worked as much as those with the same mortality rate in...
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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 of social security and its related programs in Japan since the 1980s. We compute the tax force to retire early, using the institutional parameters and synthetic earnings...
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countries that have high take up rates, inducing early retirement …
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This study examined the factors that affect the retirement decisions of the middle-aged and elderly in Japan, focusing … the OV model proposed by Stock and Wise (1990a, 1990b), we found that the probability of retirement has a negative and … Japan--where being enrolled in the disability program is unlikely to make one a candidate for the retirement path …
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Japan experienced increases in labor force participation (LFP) of the elderly in recent years, as have other advanced countries. In the present study, we overview the employment trend of the elderly in Japan, and examine what factors have contributed to its increase since the early 2000s....
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