Labor Force Participation among Indian Elderly: Does Health Matter?

Manoj K Pandey (manojkp23@gmail.com)

Working Papers from eSocialSciences

Abstract: The paper analyzes the effect of health status on labour force participation for aged Indians. The potential endogeneity in health and labour force participation has been taken care of by using full information maximum likelihood (FIML) and estimation results are compared with alternative two-stage methods. Results show that health has a significant and positive effect on labour force participation of the aged. In order to keep enough supply of elderly in the labour market, sufficient health care is necessary and hence more investment in this sector is imperative.[MPRA Paper No. 15394]

Keywords: self-reported health status; labour force participation; elderly; endogeneity; exogeneity; simultaneous equation model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-dev, nep-hea and nep-lab
Note: Institutional Papers
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (6)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.esocialsciences.org/Download/repecDownl ... &AId=1987&fref=repec

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:1987

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from eSocialSciences
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Padma Prakash (padmaprakash@esocialsciences.com).