scholarly journals Labor Force Participation of the Elderly in Japan

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takashi Oshio ◽  
Emiko Usui ◽  
Satoshi Shimizutani
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Labor Force Participation ◽  
The Elderly

scholarly journals Does universal long-term care insurance boost female labor force participation? Macro-level evidence

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michihito Ando ◽  
Masato Furuichi ◽  
Yoshihiro Kaneko
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Labor Force Participation ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Female Labor Force Participation ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Female Labor ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Long Term Care Insurance

Abstract Although a public long-term care (LTC) program is a potentially important factor for the labor supply of female informal caregivers, there are only a handful of individual-level studies on this topic and the macro-level impacts of LTC programs are still largely unknown. Exploiting the introduction of nationwide long-term care insurance (LTCI) in Japan and utilizing a synthetic control method, we examine how LTCI introduction has altered the trends of public expenditures on in-kind benefits for the elderly, public health expenditure, and female labor force participation. The estimation results using the panel data of OECD countries (1980–2013) suggest that LTCI introduction substantially increased the in-kind benefits for the elderly by around one percentage point of GDP 10 years after LTCI introduction, but we do not find a positive effect on the labor force participation for middle-aged women. The fact that we do not observe any positive LTCI effects on middle-aged female labor force participation on a macro level implies that positive LTCI effects on female labor supply observed in some previous microlevel studies may be cancelled out by some other factors or are small enough to be detected under a general-equilibrium setting.

scholarly journals The Evolution of the Elderly Labor Force Participation and Retirement in Brazil

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernardo L Queiroz ◽  
Matheus L.A. Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Labor Force Participation ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Public Pension ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Pension Program ◽  
Expected Length ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Mortality Forecasts

In this paper, we investigate the length of retirement in a less developed economy with large public pension program, Brazil. We analyze the evolution of labor force participation and retirement since 1979 and estimate the expected length of retirement from 1979 to 2098 for both males and females. We use a stochastic model (Lee-Carter) to forecast labor force participation rates. Combining these estimates to UN mortality forecasts. We estimate the expected length of retirement. We find a steady decline in the labor force participation of young adults and elderly over time, mostly due to access to education and public pension programs, whereas for females we observed a constant increase for the prime-age women. Our findings also indicate that the expected length of retirement might increase from 10% to over 20% of Brazilian working lives, as people leave the labor force at early ages and live longer lives.

scholarly journals Family Economic Burden of Elderly Chronic Diseases: Evidence from China

Healthcare ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu ◽  
Huang ◽  
Zhang ◽  
Chen
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Labor Force Participation ◽  
Economic Burden ◽  
Participation Rate ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Annual Expenditure ◽  
Peking University

Chronic diseases among the elderly and their huge economic burden on family have caught much attention from economists and sociologists over the past decade in China. This study measured the economic burden of elderly chronic disease (ECD) in families using the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) data set from Peking University (China). We studied some aspects of this burden, including health-service utilization, out-of-pocket expenditure on inpatient and outpatient, total family expenditures on items, and labor force participation rates of family members, etc. Some interesting things were found, for example, the additional annual expenditure on inpatient care (per member) in ECD-families was 37 to 45 percent of the annual expenditure in the control group; the labor-force participation rate in ECD-families was 2.4 to 3.3 percent of points lower than in the control group.

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