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Relationship between Social Security Programs and Elderly Employment in Japan

Oshio, Takashi; Shimizutani, Satoshi; Oishi, Akiko Sato - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

social security reforms. We further estimated the association of ITAX with an individual's decisions concerning retirement … forms on retirement based on the estimated regression parameters. The results showed that a higher ITAX drove individuals …

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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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Work Expectations, Realizations, and Depression in Older Workers

Falba, Tracy A. - 2008

expectations. Our sample of 4,241 observations is drawn from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We examine workers who were …

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Cumulative Effects of Job Characteristics on Health

Fletcher, Jason M. - 2009

We examine whether the job characteristics of physical demands and environmental conditions affect individual's health. Five-year cumulative measures of these job characteristics are used to reflect findings in the biologic and physiologic literature that indicate that cumulative exposure to...

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Impact of First Occupation on Health at Older Ages

Sindelar, Jody L. - 2007

Early choice of occupation could be a critical factor in successful aging and this information may pave the way to developing more effective workplace and public policies to improve health in older ages

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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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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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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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