ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on and contributed to uncovering the ways in which workers shape their labour market behaviours under the current institutional structure and the continued employment arrangement. This chapter delivers evidence-based discussions of three areas of older worker's experience: the pre-mandatory retirement experience, that of job seeking in later life, and post-mandatory retirement experience. Over the next decades, Korea will experience patterns of demographic changes that Japan has already experienced. Japan's experience of delaying retirement, may serve as a crucial source of policy lessons to delay the retirement of workers in Korea. Korea may be in a position to draw on the lessons of Japan's experience in order to find ways to increase its own citizen's minimum retirement age while also promoting their 'productive ageing'. The chapter argues the current and future experiences of Japan in delaying worker's retirement generally and in intervening into mandatory retirement in particular have significant implications for many other countries around the world.
