Working Hours Flexibility and Timing of Retirement: Findings from Europe

Heß, Moritz; Bauknecht, Jürgen; Pink, Sebastian

doi:10.1080/08959420.2018.1500857

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“…Wainwright et al 2019 ). However, there is a risk of part-time work becoming a stepping stone into full retirement instead of leading to an extended working life (Hess et al 2018 ). The causal mechanisms of part-time work, informal help and formal volunteering in late careers, and their implications for the timing of labour market exit, are issues to be further explored in future research.…”

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Associations between paid and unpaid work among Norwegian seniors: competition, complementarity or continuity?

2021

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A key issue in policy debates on active ageing is how to increase older people’s participation in both paid and unpaid work. This combined goal raises the question of whether the different activities compete for seniors’ time and energy or whether it is possible to achieve both, since such activities may instead complement one another. To address this issue, we examine associations between paid work, informal help provision and formal volunteering among 62- to 75-year-olds by using longitudinal data from the Norwegian Life Course, Ageing and Generation Study (2007, 2017). Our analyses show that both work exit and part-time work are associated with a higher probability of doing unpaid work in senior years compared with full-time work. However, previous engagement in unpaid activities matters considerably, regardless of paid work status. Individuals involved in informal help or formal voluntary work in 2007 were far more likely to do unpaid work 10 years later than those who were not involved. Since seniors who are already engaged in unpaid activities before leaving the labour market are likely to continue to provide informal help and volunteer, we argue that initiatives to stimulate combinations of paid and unpaid work in late careers may be advantageous.

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Associations between paid and unpaid work among Norwegian seniors: competition, complementarity or continuity?

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“…This result is in line with an earlier study based on nine OECD countries with FRPs that found a widespread and sudden decline in labor force participation at and even before the statutory retirement age (Börsch-Supan et al, 2017). Similarly, a study of 14 European countries showed that policies allowing part-time work at the end of an occupational career did not encourage the prolongation of working life (Hess, Bauknecht, & Pink, 2018). Thus, the trend of moving away from early retirement schemes toward flexible retirement schemes does not necessarily lead individuals to retire later.…”

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Retirement Trajectories in Countries with Flexible Retirement Policies but Different Welfare Regimes

Baumann

Madero-Cabib

2019

Journal of Aging & Social Policy

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We examine how both the welfare regime and health affect retirement trajectories in countries with flexible retirement policies using longitudinal methods and harmonized panel data from two social-democratic (Sweden and Denmark) and two liberal welfare regimes (Chile and the United States). An early retirement trajectory, which represents retirement in the early 60s, is the most frequent in all countries, although it is less prevalent in liberal than in social-democratic regimes. Adverse health conditions are more frequent among early retirees in liberal but not in socialdemocratic regimes. Overall, we do not find evidence for an inciting effect of flexible retirement policies on working life extension. However, welfare regimes substantially affect late-life labor force participation.

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“…Working‐hour characteristics may also change according to seniority and possibilities to select more favourable working hours (Hess, Bauknecht, & Pink, 2018; Vanajan, Bultmann, & Henkens, 2019). This could explain some earlier negative results on age‐related trends in the association of shift work and health (Booker, Magee, Rajaratnam, Sletten, & Howard, 2018; Ritonja, Aronson, Matthews, Boivin, & Kantermann, 2019).…”

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A case‐crossover study of age group differences in objective working‐hour characteristics and short sickness absence

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Aim To investigate age group differences in objective working‐hour characteristics and their associations with short (1–3 days) sickness absence. Background Irregular working hours, that is shift work with non‐standard schedule, may influence sickness absence rates in hospital workers. Methods We collected daily working hours and the first incidence of short sickness absence from the employers’ electronic records from 2008 to 2017. A case‐crossover study compared the characteristics of the working hours 28 days preceding the sickness absence (exposure window) and 28 days earlier (control window) across 10‐year age groups (conditional logistic regression for odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (95% CI)). Results Younger employees had longer working hours and more night and consecutive shifts. Extended weekly working hours were associated with short sickness absence in all age groups. Age‐related differences were few: extended working hours among oldest age group (OR: 1.01, 95% CI: 1.00–1.01) and daily working hours in the youngest and middle‐age groups (Ors: 1.14–1.17) were associated with increased sickness absence. Conclusions Length of working hours, and night and consecutive shifts differed between age, but the associations with short sickness absence were similar across all age groups. Implications for Nursing Management Among older employees, the length of working hours should be paid special attention.

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Working Hours Flexibility and Timing of Retirement: Findings from Europe

Cited by 20 publications

References 33 publications

Associations between paid and unpaid work among Norwegian seniors: competition, complementarity or continuity?

Associations between paid and unpaid work among Norwegian seniors: competition, complementarity or continuity?

Retirement Trajectories in Countries with Flexible Retirement Policies but Different Welfare Regimes

A case‐crossover study of age group differences in objective working‐hour characteristics and short sickness absence

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