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Willingness to Continue Volunteering Among the Middle-Aged and Older Adults in Japan

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Employment, Retirement and Lifestyle in Aging East Asia

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Abstract

Using a unique survey—Activities and Working Status Survey of individuals and NPO organizations in 2014, this chapter creates an employee-employer matched dataset including individuals and NPOs to investigate the influence of four kinds of factors (human capital; household income; activity motivation; and rewards) on individuals’ willingness to continue volunteering. It is found that in general, the human capital factor and the motivation factor significantly affect willingness to continue volunteering; the influences of human capital and income factors are confirmed for the group aged 50–59, and the influences of human capital and reward factors are significant for the group aged 60–64, while the influences of income and motivation factors are confirmed for the group aged 65 and older.

This chapter is a revised version of: Ma, X. (2017). The determinants of willingness to continue to volunteering among middle-aged and older adults in Japan. In The Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT) (Ed.), Employment of older adults in population decrease society (pp. 230–270). JILPT, Tokyo. (In Japanese).

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Table 7.4 Descriptive statistics of variables
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Table 7.5 Results of volunteering reward function in Japan
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Ma, X. (2021). Willingness to Continue Volunteering Among the Middle-Aged and Older Adults in Japan. In: Ma, X. (eds) Employment, Retirement and Lifestyle in Aging East Asia. Social Policy and Development Studies in East Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0554-3_7

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