This paper attempts to find the drivers of choice of various occupations during old age and related earning dissatisfaction. Old age workforce participation in India is largely characterized by distress driven and therefore assumed to be associated with vulnerabilities in working conditions....

This paper attempts to find the drivers of choice of various occupations during old age and related earning dissatisfaction. Old age workforce participation in India is largely characterized by distress driven and therefore assumed to be associated with vulnerabilities in working conditions....

Under the scenario of popularly increasing population aging problem and health related difficulties in India, the study attempts to explore the health-related discrepancies among male and female elderly, with the help of a composite health indicator. The composite health indicator is formulated...

Up growing population aging problem, coupled with prevalent poverty among elderly and inadequate social security emerge the need of labor market participation of elderly in India. Using unit level data from NSSO, the paper investigates the role of household per capita expenditure in determining...

The study attempts to identify suitable model for estimating determinants of quality of elderly with a focus on of India-China comparisons. These two countries have been selected because both are having large cumulate large number of elderly every year, in the pathway of economic growth. To the...

Prediction is a forecast of an event which may happen in future. Predictions are not necessary based upon the prior knowledge or experience for an event of interest. Every person does predictions but the quality of the predictions differs from person to person and that classifies them as a...

Purpose – This paper explored the reliability of self-reported health and the impact of the social position in determining the inconsistent health response, in late life.Methodology – The study uses nationally representative unit level data from the National Sample Survey of India. Using the...

This paper explored the reliability of self-reported health and the impact of the social position in determining the inconsistent health response, in late life. The study uses nationally representative unit level data from National Sample Survey of India. Using bi-variate probit model, joint...