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Work at older ages in Japan
— variation by gender and employment status | | Author(s) | James M Raymo, Jersey Liang, Hidehiro Sugisawa |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 59B, no 3, May 2004 |
| Pages | pp S154-S163 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Employment of older people ; Older men ; Older women ; Labour economics ; Social surveys ; Japan. |
| Annotation | Correlates of labour force participation by Japanese men and women aged 60-85 are described, and differences by gender and employment are examined. The authors use four waves of data collected between 1990 and 1999 from the Employment Status Survey of the Elderly (ESSE), a national sample of older Japanese, to examine multinomial logistic regression models for three measures of labour force participation (current labour force status, labour force exit, and labour force re-entry) as a function of individual and family characteristics measured 3 years earlier. Labour force participation is specifically associated with socioeconomic status, longer occupation and family structure. The strength and nature of these relationships differ markedly for men and women and for wage employment and self-employment. The emphasis of life course experiences and work-family interdependence characterising recent research on retirement in the US is clearly relevant to Japan too. Subsequent research should incorporate more direct measures of life course experience and family relationships, and attempt to make explicit cross-national comparisons of these relationships. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-041103212 A |
| Classmark | GC: BC: BD: WH: 3F: 7DT |
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