scholarly journals GOVERNANCE, LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION RATES AND LIFE SATISFACTION FOR THE ELDERLY

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (suppl_1) ◽  
pp. 1198-1198
Author(s):  
H. Weng ◽  
T. Ho ◽  
Y. Zhu ◽  
S. Huang ◽  
L. Lu
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Labor Force Participation ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Participation Rates

scholarly journals Health and Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1900–1991

1996 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dora L. Costa
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Labor Force Participation ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Older Men ◽  
Participation Rates ◽  
Historical Changes ◽  
The Past

I use Body Mass Index (BMI) to investigate how the ralationship between health status and retirement among older men has changed since 1900. Although BMIs for the elderly were much less healthy in 1900 than today, the BMI level that maximizes labor force participation rates has not changed. However, in 1900 the elasticity of nonparticipation with respect to BMI was greater than it is today, suggesting that health is now less important to the retirement decision than in the past. Other factors (especially rising income) are more important than health in explaining the historical changes in retirement rates.

scholarly journals Gender Disparities, Labor Force Participation and Transfer Payment: What Do Macro Data Say?

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 375-387
Author(s):  
Hale Akbulut
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Labor Force Participation ◽  
Generalized Method Of Moments ◽  
Gender Disparities ◽  
Transfer Payment ◽  
Participation Rates ◽  
Transfer Payments ◽  
Endogenous Variables ◽  
Employ Labor Force ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This paper analyzes the relationship between government transfer payments and labor force participation rates for a sample of 34 countries over the period of 1995- 2012. We benefit from two step system Generalized Method of Moments as a methodology and thereby eliminate the biases that may arise from endogenous variables. Our econometric results also confirm the employment of the dynamic methodology. First, we estimate the coefficients for overall population and then we re-estimate the coefficients for different genders. As a result of our estimations we observe that the significances and the values of coefficients increase when we employ labor force participation rates of females as dependent variable. Therefore, our findings suggest that transfer payments are more effective in working decisions of females.

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