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

Authors:	SATOSHI SHIMIZUTANI TAKASHI OSHIO

Institution:	1. Institute for International Policy Studies;2. Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University. E‐mail: . This project was undertaken as part of a research project exploring the interaction between the pension program, retirement, and the well‐being of the elderly, supported by Health and Labour Sciences Research Grants (FY2007–FY2008) and Project on International Equity (FY2006‐FY2010), supported by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. We are grateful to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare for providing us a micro‐level dataset from the Survey on Employment of the Elderly. We also thank Akiko Oishi for her very constructive comments. The views expressed in this paper are personal.

Abstract:	The interval in time between leaving a career job and exit from the labor force is especially long for Japanese employees. 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.

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