Factors affecting labor force participation in Japan: Empirical study of labor supply of the elderly and females

Ageing and the Labor Market in Japan: Problems and Policies

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 24-56

  Sakai, Hirotsugu ^a   Asaoka, Hitoshi ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

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