New Evidence on Initial Transition from Career Job to Retirement in Japan

Satoshi Shimizutani () and Oshio Takashi

No 430, PIE/CIS Discussion Paper from Center for Intergenerational Studies, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University

Abstract: The interval in time between leaving a career job and exit from the labor force is especially long for Japanese employees and separation from the career job often takes place due to mandatory retirement in Japan. Using micro-level data compiled by the Japanese Government, we examine determinants of post-career work arrangements from two perspectives: work status and the route to a second job. We show that these determinants differ between male and female workers and that the customary function of career employers to place their workers in a second job has declined since the middle of the 1990s.

Keywords: mandatory retirement; postretirement arrangements; labor supply of the elderly; Japan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J14 J26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2009-05
Note: This version: May 2009

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