This paper, while describing the revised Japanese public pension
scheme for housewives and showing the actual receipt of public pensions by
women according to occupational group, empirically estimates the effect of the
public pension on labor supply and home production activities of older women.
Data are drawn from two sets of national sample of females aged 55E9 surveyed
in 1983 and 1992, when a decline in extended families, an increase in older
couples, and a rise in the general pension level was observed. As the pension
receipt increased, a large retirement effect and an increase in housekeeping
activities was estimated for females with formal paid work experience, while a
slight rise in leisure activities was estimated for housewives.
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