Factors Affecting Prolonged Working Life for the Older Workforce: the Swedish Case

Berglund, Tomas; Seldén, Daniel; Halleröd, Bjørn

doi:10.18291/njwls.v7i1.81396

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“…Agency is conceptualized in previous studies as the degree to which we can attribute what we do to ourselves as opposed to societal structures, which may enable or limit our actions (see, e.g., Higgs et al 2003). Previous studies have looked at the role of, for example, education level and physical health (Solem et al 2016), norms, and values (Berglund et al 2017), job satisfaction, job control, organizational practices, and financial incentives (van Oorschot & Jensen 2009) on either retirement outcomes or decisions. They have, in turns, found all of these to be contributing factors in some way.…”

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“…Their employer no longer readily provided support for these changes based on economic rationale (Krekula 2019). Berglund et al (2017) emphasize the role of norms and values in retirement outcomes in their study on prolonged employment after pension eligibility in Sweden and conclude the following: 'The norm to quit, which is emphasized by the institutionalized pension system, and the values and preferences connected to life as a pensioner, are strong social forces that condition employees' retirement decisions ' (ibid., p. 33). Interestingly, their study took place at a time when pension reforms that specifically intended to retain older employees had been recently introduced.…”

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Employment Exits Near Retirement Age: An Agency-analysis

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Population aging has prompted international governing bodies to recommend extending work careers and postponing retirement age. Retirement decisions cannot be fully reduced to either structural influences or individual agency. Older workers may face several limiting factors when continuing their careers beyond the official retirement age, including internalized attitudes towards aging at work. Our aim is to develop agency analysis that involves both structural and individual components to fully illustrate the heterogeneity of older workers and their retirement decisions. By studying qualitative interview data via thematic content analysis and a modality-based agency framework, we found that agency manifests in various different ways in older employees’ work exit accounts and that the relationship between individual agency and structures is complex. We conclude that agency analysis of aging employees offers insights into the complexity of the retirement process and may thus inform us about how to help extend work careers.

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Employment Exits Near Retirement Age: An Agency-analysis

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Nikander

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“…Ropik (2013) meneliti mengenai faktor-faktor yang memengaruhi lansia bekerja menurut lapangan pekerjaan. Berglund et al (2017) menyelidiki penyebab lansia masih tetap bekerja di usia pensiun meski memiliki hak untuk pensiun. Beberapa penelitian mengenai pekerja lansia banyak terfokus kepada penyebab lansia bekerja.…”

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Elderly Informal Workers and Elderly Supporting Capacity Ratio in Indonesia

Jamalludin¹

2020

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The proportion of the elderly population in Indonesia continues to increase. The implication of population aging is the low carrying capacity ratio which triggers the elderly to keep working. The need for leisure is increasing in the elderly, but almost half of the elderly in Indonesia still work. This study aims to look at the characteristics of the elderly who still work in the informal sector. This study also portrays the correlation between the carrying capacity ratio and social security ownership with the number of elderly workers by province. The secondary data used in this study is the 2018 national labor force survey data. The method used to answer this study is Pearson correlation analysis and binary logistic regression. The correlation analysis findings show that the higher the carrying capacity ratio of the elderly, the less elderly who work in a province. Social security in the elderly has a negative relationship with the number of elderly people who work. An interesting finding from the logit model is that the elderly with disabilities, both minor and moderate, are more inclined to work in the informal sector than the elderly who are not disabled. Low and secondary education in the elderly has a higher tendency to work in the informal sector than the elderly who have high education

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“…Work satisfaction has been the topic of active scientific inquiry (Berglund et al 2017;Bussing et al 1999;Kadefors et al 2016;Pagán 2013). Previous quantitative studies demonstrate that work-related resources (Stynen et al 2017), job support (Pagán 2013) and job control (Allan et al 2018;Chao et al 2015;Lindfors et al 2007;Meyers et al 2019;Waddimba et al 2016) are positive predictors of work satisfaction.…”

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Evaluation of Lifelong Work Satisfaction among Former Postal Service Workers

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Prakash

Siukola

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While policymakers emphasize the need to delay retirement age, numerous traditional industries, among them postal services, emphasize the need for employee downsizings. These can be contradictory needs. Downsizings can reduce work life satisfaction (WLS) among workers, and reduced WLS can decrease willingness to delay retirement age. In this cross-sectional study, we explore WLS trajectories of former postal service workers by analyzing quantitative survey data (N = 201) and qualitative interview data (N = 40). In the data, workers aged 50-67 years evaluate their lifelong work satisfaction. The results of the quantitative and the qualitative study complement and mirror each other. Same trajectories of WLS were identified in both data. One-third of the survey respondents reported decreasing WLS, which according to the qualitative data relates to employee downsizings. The article highlights the importance of acknowledging contextual elements of work satisfaction measurement and the benefits of combining methodological traditions to understand the longer-term dynamics involved. KEYWORDS Employee downsizing / extended working life / lifeline trajectories / mixing methods / older workers / work life satisfaction

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Factors Affecting Prolonged Working Life for the Older Workforce: the Swedish Case

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to uncover some of the mechanisms that could make the older workforce willing and able to stay employed.

Cited by 15 publications

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Employment Exits Near Retirement Age: An Agency-analysis

Employment Exits Near Retirement Age: An Agency-analysis

Elderly Informal Workers and Elderly Supporting Capacity Ratio in Indonesia

Evaluation of Lifelong Work Satisfaction among Former Postal Service Workers

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