2017 Volume 14 Pages 147-167
This paper clarifies the determinants of early turnover rate in care workers
and verifies the effect of The subsidy for improvement of the benefits of the
care staff which was introduced in October 2009. Since the elderly has been ever-
increasing while care workers is a chronic shortage, the biggest problem over
the care workers is a shortage of human resources due to high early turnover
rate. Given the rise of future care labor demand, it is a pressing issue to elucidate
the determinants of early turnover rate and to clarify whether the past policy
intervention had the effects on early turnover rate. By analyzing a largescale
survey of care workers in Japan, we found the following four points. First,
the determinants of early turnover rate are different between the regular and
non-regular workers. Second, the determinants of early turnover rate and turnover
rate are different both for regular and non-regular workers. Third, the effect
of The subsidy for improvement of the benefits of the care staff on early
turnover rate is limited.
