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@article{ART002093881},
author={Kim Cherljoo},
title={The Impacts of Education and Non-Labor Income on Employment Among the Elderly: An Estimation with a Panel Logit Model to Address the Problem of Endogenous Predictors},
journal={Korea Social Policy Review},
issn={1226-0525},
year={2016},
volume={23},
number={1},
pages={95-123},
doi={10.17000/kspr.23.1.201603.95}

TY - JOUR
AU - Kim Cherljoo
TI - The Impacts of Education and Non-Labor Income on Employment Among the Elderly: An Estimation with a Panel Logit Model to Address the Problem of Endogenous Predictors
JO - Korea Social Policy Review
PY - 2016
VL - 23
IS - 1
PB - Korean Association of Social Policy
SP - 95
EP - 123
SN - 1226-0525
AB - As Korean society grows rapidly older, a systematic analysis of the determinants of labor supply behavior among the elderly becomes a prerequisite for designing more effective senior employment policies and income security regime for the elderly. Literatures review shows that a majority of previous researches have been ignoring the problem of "endogenous predictor" especially when it comes to the estimation of the effects of the two key variables, education and non-labor income, on labor supply decisions among older people. They have failed to take into consideration the unobserved heterogeneities which might affect both labor supply decisions of the elderly and their levels of education and non-labor income, which means, according to some econometric literatures, that the estimated coefficients of the two predictors can be inconsistent. The paper tries to redress the endogeneity problem by employing a panel logit model with data from the 1st. to 4th. wave of the KLoSA(Korean Longitudinal Survey of Ageing) to estimate the effects of key predictors on the probability of getting jobs among older people(ages of 60 or older). Both a random effects and a fixed effects model reaffirms that non-labor income has a negative effect on the chances of being employed. And a random effects model shows that the effect of education is also negative, as has frequently been reported by previous studies. That means the effects of education and non-labor income on elderly employment remain negative after the effect of unobserved heterogeneities is controled for and the problem of endogenous predictors is redressed through an appropriate panel data analysis. These findings mean, in turn, that when Korean baby-boomers, who had acquired an unprecedentedly higher level of education and were expected to enjoy ever- larger amount of non-labor income than their preceding generations, retires in near future, their incentives to work will become much weaker and the lack of labor-force and the burden of financing increased public pension expenditure will become more troublesome. The paper concludes with recommending some policy initiatives helpful to solve these expected problems.
KW - labor supply among the elderly;endogenous predictors;panel logit model
DO - 10.17000/kspr.23.1.201603.95
ER -

Kim Cherljoo. (2016). The Impacts of Education and Non-Labor Income on Employment Among the Elderly: An Estimation with a Panel Logit Model to Address the Problem of Endogenous Predictors. Korea Social Policy Review, 23(1), 95-123.

Kim Cherljoo. 2016, "The Impacts of Education and Non-Labor Income on Employment Among the Elderly: An Estimation with a Panel Logit Model to Address the Problem of Endogenous Predictors", Korea Social Policy Review, vol.23, no.1 pp.95-123. Available from: doi:10.17000/kspr.23.1.201603.95

Kim Cherljoo "The Impacts of Education and Non-Labor Income on Employment Among the Elderly: An Estimation with a Panel Logit Model to Address the Problem of Endogenous Predictors" Korea Social Policy Review 23.1 pp.95-123 (2016) : 95.

Kim Cherljoo. The Impacts of Education and Non-Labor Income on Employment Among the Elderly: An Estimation with a Panel Logit Model to Address the Problem of Endogenous Predictors. 2016; 23(1), 95-123. Available from: doi:10.17000/kspr.23.1.201603.95

Kim Cherljoo. "The Impacts of Education and Non-Labor Income on Employment Among the Elderly: An Estimation with a Panel Logit Model to Address the Problem of Endogenous Predictors" Korea Social Policy Review 23, no.1 (2016) : 95-123.doi: 10.17000/kspr.23.1.201603.95

Kim Cherljoo. The Impacts of Education and Non-Labor Income on Employment Among the Elderly: An Estimation with a Panel Logit Model to Address the Problem of Endogenous Predictors. Korea Social Policy Review, 23(1), 95-123. doi: 10.17000/kspr.23.1.201603.95

Kim Cherljoo. The Impacts of Education and Non-Labor Income on Employment Among the Elderly: An Estimation with a Panel Logit Model to Address the Problem of Endogenous Predictors. Korea Social Policy Review. 2016; 23(1) 95-123. doi: 10.17000/kspr.23.1.201603.95

Kim Cherljoo. The Impacts of Education and Non-Labor Income on Employment Among the Elderly: An Estimation with a Panel Logit Model to Address the Problem of Endogenous Predictors. 2016; 23(1), 95-123. Available from: doi:10.17000/kspr.23.1.201603.95

Kim Cherljoo. "The Impacts of Education and Non-Labor Income on Employment Among the Elderly: An Estimation with a Panel Logit Model to Address the Problem of Endogenous Predictors" Korea Social Policy Review 23, no.1 (2016) : 95-123.doi: 10.17000/kspr.23.1.201603.95