AFEBI Economic and Finance Review
Vol 5, No 1 (2020)

Analysis of Working Decision of Elderly in Yogyakarta Province

Yozi Aulia Rahman (Economics Department’s Faculty of Economics Universitas Negeri Semarang)
Nindya Haryo Permadi (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
29 Jun 2020

Abstract

This research aimed to analyse the the social-economis factors influencing the working decisions of elderly in Yogyakarta Province. The sample used was the elderly population of Special Region of Yogjakarta province aged 60 years amounted to 1.906 people following the number of respondents of Susenas in 2016. The analytical tool used is Binary Logit Regression using SPSS 21.The results show that the number of productive elderly people was 57,50% from the whole number of elderly people. The elderly workers dominantly work in the agriculture sector. Their profession is as an entrepreneur and mostly helped by their workers and others are as full time force workers. Binary regression test showed that duration of illness, hospitalization, dependent burden, living location, and pension guarantee significantly negative influence to their decision to go working. Meanwhile, level of primary education, marital status, and their status in the household positively significant influence to work. In addition, gender, level of secondary and higher education, and their household expenses do not significantly influence to their decision to work in the Special Region of Yogjakarta province in 2016.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

aefr

Publisher

Subject

Economics, Econometrics & Finance

Description

AFEBI Economic and Finance Review (AEFR) is an academic journal which is published twice a year (June and December) by The Association of The Faculty of Economics and Business Indonesia. AEFR is aimed as an outlet for theoretical and empirical research in the field of economics and to disseminate ...