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Health and Work Decisions of Older Japanese Men

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  • Shinya Kajitani

    (Meisei University)

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How does working in old age affect health status? We use the datasets from the "1987, 1990, and 1993 National Surveys of the Japanese Elderly" and examine the impacts of the working hours of elderly Japanese men on their health, taking into account an interrelation between work and health. We discover that (1) both the presence of disease and the degree of physical strength or depression have large impacts on self-assessed general health status, and (2) working does not reduce the self-assessed health level of the elderly. Moreover, (3) Japanese males would like to work for relatively fewer hours as they become older. These results suggest that the elderly could maintain their health by working with a relative decrease in labor hours.

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  • Shinya Kajitani, 2009. "Health and Work Decisions of Older Japanese Men," Discussion Papers 12, Meisei University, School of Economics.
  • Handle: RePEc:mei:wpaper:12
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    Cited by:

    1. Yoshiaki Hoshino & Ryuichiro Ishikawa & Akira Yamazaki, 2013. "Unequal Distribution of Powers in a Wicksellian Transfer Game," Discussion Papers 24, Meisei University, School of Economics.
    2. Akira Yamazaki, 2013. "Production Atomless Economies," Discussion Papers 25, Meisei University, School of Economics.

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    JEL classification:

    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply

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