This paper examines whether social security programs induce a withdrawal of the elderly from the labor force and create jobs for the young in Japan. The key messages are summarized as follows. First, our historical overview suggests that young unemployment issues have not motivated social security reforms and that changes in provisions are not endogenous. Second, employment of the young tends to be positively, not negatively, associated with the LFP of the old. Third, an increase in the inducement to retire significantly discourages the old from staying in the labor force, but does not create jobs for the young.
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Paper provided by Center for Intergenerational Studies, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University in its series PIE/CIS Discussion Paper with number
408.
Length: 30 p. Date of creation: Oct 2008 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:hit:piecis:408
Note: July 2008, The original version of this paper was presented at the conference on International Social Security Project (Phase V) organized by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in Lisbon, Portugal on May 23-24, 2008. Contact details of provider: Web page: http://cis.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/ More information through EDIRC
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