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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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Health, Economic Resources and the Work Decisions of Older Men

Bound, John - 2007

is estimated using data from the Health and Retirement Study. We compare results based on our model to results based on … the normal retirement age, eliminating early retirement altogether and eliminating the Social Security Disability …

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Accounting for Recent Declines in Employment Rates among the Working-Aged Disabled

Bound, John - 2000

During the 1990s, while overall employment rates for working-aged men and women either remained roughly constant (men) or rose (women), employment rates for the disabled fell. During the same period the fraction of the working-aged population receiving Social Security Disability Insurance (DI)...

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The Dynamic Effects of Health on the Labor Force Transitions of Older Workers

Bound, John - 1998

use the longitudinal Health and Retirement Survey to analyze the dynamic relationship between health and alternative labor … with continued participation. Thus, it appears that not just poor health, but declines in health help explain retirement …

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Race Differences in Labor Force Attachment and Disability Status

Bound, John - 1996

We use the first wave of the Health and Retirement Survey to study the effect of health on the labor force activity of …

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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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