Abstract
Population aging is expected to challenge many developed and emerging countries in the coming years. Occupational accidents (OA) and their relationship with population aging have become issues of interest in these countries. This study proposes a theoretical macroeconomic model to investigate the impact of factors influencing OA based on a labor supply theoretical framework. An autoregressive distributed lag-bounds testing approach was employed to empirically estimate the proposed model using data from Japan from 1961 to 2019. The results confirmed the positive impacts of aging labor and average working hours on OA. On the other hand, investment in industrial accident prevention measures significantly reduced OA. The results shed light on the effects of population aging on the labor market and provide practical policy recommendations.
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Source: Authors, data extracted from World Development Indicators Data Bank
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Source: Data for OA extracted from JISHA (2020) and GDP per capita from the World Bank website
Source: Data for OA extracted from JISHA (JISHA) and new capital stock from Penn World Tables, version 10.0
Source: JISHA (JISHA)
Source: JISHA (JISHA)
Source: Authors' calculation from Eviews 12.0
Source: Authors' calculation from Eviews 12.0
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Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary acknowledges the financial support from the Grant-in-Aid for the Excellent Young Researcher of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (MEXT); Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (No. 22K13432) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (No. 22H03816) of the JSPS. Certainly, all remaining errors are our own.
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Pourrostami, N., Taghizadeh-Hesary, F. & Zarezadeh Mehrizi, F. Population aging and working hour impacts on occupational accidents: evidence from Japan. Econ Change Restruct 56, 2621–2644 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10644-023-09526-4
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