Who supports delayed retirement? A study of older workers in Israel

Abstract

Delayed retirement is a policy measure aimed at ensuring financial stability in many countries, but this particular pension reform mechanism still lacks public support. Using data from the Israeli sample of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE) in Europe, this article examines factors which predict support for delayed retirement among older Israeli workers (n=556). Hierarchical regression analysis of agreement with recently instituted delayed retirement measures showed that the perceived societal consequences of the reform were the strongest predictors. Older and more educated respondents and those more confident in their present workplace were also more likely to support delayed retirement. Those who favour state responsibility for care of older people tended to support delayed retirement less. The findings suggest that information campaigns on the contribution of continued employment to health and family solidarity might diminish current fears regarding the delayed retirement-based pension reforms. They also imply that non-partisan leadership is needed in order to recruit broader public support for such reform.

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“…The power resource theory (Korpi 1983) thus claims that welfare state support is guided by class interests. Accordingly, Boeri et al (2002) Litwin et al (2009) provide evidence that people with a right political ideology are more in favour of increasing the retirement age, other studies (Lynch and Myrskylä 2009;Boeri et al 2002) find no significant effect of political ideology. (Beck 1992), individualization trends and the transition to a postmaterialist, postmodern or postindustrial society (Inglehart 1990).…”

“…First, an analysis of aggregate public opinion on the country level is combined with an examination of how specific groups of individuals react to particular policy reforms. Second, I aim to complement the rather static findings of previous attitudinal research focusing on cross-country comparisons at a single point in time (Boeri et al 2002; Fernández and Jaime-Castillo 2013 for studies on pension attitudes) or on changes over time in single-country studies (Litwin et al 2009) with a more dynamic analysis of reform preferences over time and across different institutional settings in order to infer whether and to what extent welfare state reforms influence citizens' attitudes.…”

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“…5SHARE, for example, includes a question referring to desired retirement ‘as early as possible’ (Blanchet and Debrand 2009; Litwin, Achdut and Youssim 2009), which, however, may refer to variable ages both between as well as within countries.…”