In responding to the challenge of rapid population aging in Asia, promoting healthy and active aging has become a key policy priority in many countries.There is an opportunity to realize a "silver demographic dividend" by harnessing the potential of healthy and productive older people. This...

This study examines the health capacity to work among older persons in Japan-that is, how much longer older persons can work based on their health status using nationwide population-based surveys. We first examine how much older persons could work if they worked as much as those with the same...

Using the Milligan and Wise (2015) and Cutler, Meara, and Richards-Shubik (2013) methodologies, we examine (i) how much would people today with a given mortality rate or life expectancy work if they were to work as much as those with the same mortality rate worked in the past, and (ii) how much...

This paper uses two methodologies to explore the extent to which greater labor force participation among older Malaysians can expand Malaysia's labor supply. The Milligan-Wise method estimates the potential to increase the labor force participation rate of older Malaysians by estimating how much...

In this paper, we estimated the additional health capacities to work of older Vietnamese adults by applying the Milligan-Wise and Cutler-Meara- Richards-Shubik methods with various nationally representative datasets. In following these methods, we postulated that older adults' mortality rates,...