Earnings patterns of Japanese women: 1976-1988
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A study was conducted to determine the earnings patterns of Japanese women from 1976 to 1988. The study protocol included the examination of data from the Basic Survey of Wage Structure and the 1988 National Survey on the Family. The results showed that women's earnings rise with tenure, but the effect of tenure has waned over time. Education raises women's earnings more than the earnings of men in comparable positions, whereas leaving work for a time to take care of children is associated with depressed earnings. Recent developments in the labor market for Japanese women and the implications of the study's results for government policy are also discussed.
Publication Name: Economic Development & Cultural Change
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0013-0079
Year: 1995
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Cross-national analysis of labor force participation of older men and women
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The participation rate of elderly people, both women and men, is looked at in 151 countries and it was found that they differ due to economic, cultural and demographic reasons. The participation rate was greater for persons 55 years and older in developing countries. Participation rates were greater in countries with an agricultural economy rather than an industrial economy. Other factors that would cause a lesser participation rate includes the quality and longevity of a country's social security or pension programs, greater economic development, increased urbanization and higher income per capita.
Publication Name: Economic Development & Cultural Change
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0013-0079
Year: 1993
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Population dependency rates and savings rates: stability of estimates
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The relationship between national savings and dependency rates is examined by testing the stability of the estimated population variables over time. Using data from developing countries for the years 1975, 1980, and 1985, the savings-rate model does not indicate any strong relationship between the population age structure and the national savings rate even when the number of sample countries is held constant.
Publication Name: Economic Development & Cultural Change
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0013-0079
Year: 1992
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