Research from Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (grant number 22000001) …

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 … less physically demanding jobs have allowed the elderly to stay longer in the labor force. However, elderly employment …

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 … less physically demanding jobs have allowed the elderly to stay longer in the labor force. However, elderly employment …

, Japanese men are not choosing the optimal pensionable age and labor hours to maximize their intertemporal utility …

low; thus, the effect on labor force participation is very limited in Japan, which is in contrast with some European …This paper utilizes historical information to explore the relationship between labor force participation of middle aged … and old people and the disability program in Japan. In particular, we explore the time series dimension to identify what …

This study examined the factors that affect the retirement decisions of the middle-aged and elderly in Japan, focusing … Japan--where being enrolled in the disability program is unlikely to make one a candidate for the retirement path … more stringently increase the labor supplied by the middle-aged and elderly …