Relationship of BMI and Elderly Labor Supply:Evidence from Thailand
The paper aims to identify the relationship between BMI and elderly labor supply by employing Tobit model, and using longitudinal panel data from Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Thailand (HART) project.The preliminary findings show that underweight and overweight elderly workers supply less work hours than normal-weight elderly workers, but the effects are insignificant.Other significant variables that increase working hours of elderly workers are living in municipal area, self-evaluation of having worsening future financial status, annual income from business, debt, and the self-evaluation for health.Furthermore,respondents in Bangkok and metropolitan, central, and northem regions work more hours than respondents in northeastern region, and elderly people who graduated from primary, and secondary levels work more hours compared to elderly people with no formal education.On the other hands, the factors that negatively affected labor supply are age of respondents,female, being widowed, annual family income from government welfare, and physical problems that are related to arms and legs.
elderly worker Tobit model BMI
Thasanee Satimanon Monthien Satimanon
School of Development Economics, National Institute of Development Administration, Thailand Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University, Thailand
国际会议
广州
英文
303-321
2017-11-23（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）