Verlängerte Erwerbsbiografi en : Triebkräft e, Grenzen, soziale Ungleichheiten

Late working life, exclusion and inequality: National policies and political-economic context in Germany

“…However, these numbers do not include increases in immigration to Germany (2015/16). But even with strong immigration surges, the labour force potential is projected to decline to about 41.0 million by 2030 (Brussig 2018).…”

“…It remains to be seen whether the newly-established Federal Demographic Initiative will lead to a paradigm shift. There is much empirical evidence available (and presumably, in the wake of the corona virus crisis, there will be even more confirmation) that older workers are still pushed or encouraged to leave the labour market, whereas at the same time policy aims at convincing companies to recruit older jobseekers (Brussig 2018(Brussig , 2021. It would be unfair to say that there is no connection at all between curtailing early exit provisions and promoting labour market integration of older workers.…”

“…The employment rate of workers aged 55 to 64 has almost doubled from 38.1% in 1998 to 75,9 % in 2018 (Statistisches Bundesamt 2019), with a marked difference between women (72,1%) and men (79,6%) (see Figure 7, Figure 8). However, it must also be conceded that for many older workers, the retirement age in the statutory old age income security system (GRV) has risen faster than they have been able to extend their individual working lives (Brussig 2018). Further, the rising employment rates of older workers have to be seen and assessed in the context of a generally positive development of the German labour market (see section 4.1).…”

“…Rather, companies have increased the employment of their older workers by retaining those employees who have already been in their jobs before, i.e. they have moved up into the group of older members of the workforce by being convinced to stay longer by means of certain 'retention' measures (Brussig 2018;Bauknecht, Hess & Naegele 2020). This is in particularly true for female workers, who not only reduced their periods of non-employment, but also stayed longer in their jobs, many of them in part-time work (see section 4.4).…”

“…The German 'success model' has not had only positive effects; it took place with a simultaneous (unintended) increase of social inequalities in the possibilities and chances to achieve EWL and to profit from the different types of incentives (Hofäcker 2015;Brussig 2018Brussig , 2021Naegele & Hess (eds.) 2020).…”