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Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages : Evidence from Japan

Usui, Emiko - 2016

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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Social Security Programs and the Elderly Employment in Japan

Oshio, Takashi - 2018

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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Disability Pension Program and Labor Force Participation in Japan : A Historical Perspective

Oshio, Takashi - 2011

countries that have high take up rates, inducing early retirement …

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Option Value of Work, Health Status, and Retirement Decisions in Japan : Evidence from the Japanese Study on Aging and Retirement (JSTAR)

Shimizutani, Satoshi - 2014

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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Labor Force Participation of the Elderly in Japan

Oshio, Takashi - 2018

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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