This paper examines the effect of increased elderly employment in Japan, caused by the legal obligation of continued employment enacted in 2006, on employment of other workers and elderly’s own earnings. I find no evidence for substitution between young full-time workers and elderly workers,...

This paper examines the effect of a demand-side government intervention on employment of the elderly. The growing gap between the increasing pension eligibility age and mandatory retirement age has emerged as a serious social concern in Japan. Starting 2006, the government legally mandated...

Does a high peer employment rate increase individual employment probability? We exploit the random assignment of temporary housing to evacuees from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident to identify the effect of neighbors' employment rates on an individual's probability of finding a...