Health and Work Decisions of Older Japanese Men

Shinya Kajitani ()
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Shinya Kajitani: Meisei University

No 12, Discussion Papers from Meisei University, School of Economics

Abstract: 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.

JEL-codes: I12 J14 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2009-03
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