A scoping review of the incentives for a prolonged work life after pensionable age and the importance of “bridge employment”

Carlstedt, Anita Björklund; Brushammar, Gunilla; Bjursell, Cecilia; Nystedt, Paul; Nilsson, Gunilla

doi:10.3233/wor-182728

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“…Work demands may likewise push the worker out of the labour market. A scoping review identified physical and cognitive demands at work as barriers for prolonged work participation after pensionable age [2], these findings are supported by another review that showed that physical work demands and work pressure were related to early retirement [13]. Qualitative findings confirm that particularly work pressure [13,14] and to a lesser extent physical work demands [13] contribute to early retirement.…”

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“…Various factors influence workers' retirement intentions and behaviour [1,2] and they have been categorised into Push, Pull, Jump, Stuck, and Stay (e.g., Andersen, Jensen [3]). Push refers to factors pushing the worker involuntary out of the labour market such as ill health or adverse working conditions.…”

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“…Interviewees reported the desire to "enjoy life now", "wish to do other things outside work", "wanting more flexibility", and "to spend more time with or taking care of family members or friends" as motivations for retiring early [14]. A scoping review found that flexible working hours was an incentive for prolonged work life [2], possibly because it facilitates a satisfying work-life balance. Nevertheless, the role of the desire for more leisure as a motivation for retiring after having worked beyond retirement age has, to the authors knowledge, not been explored explicitly.…”

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Factors Contributing to Retirement Decisions in Denmark: Comparing Employees Who Expect to Retire before, at, and after the State Pension Age

Meng

Andersen

2020

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Aim: Analyse factors affecting retirement decisions comparing employees expecting to retire before, at, and after the state pension age. Methods: In the SeniorWorkingLife cohort, 12,269 workers aged +50 replied to questions about expected retirement age, reasons for leaving, and reasons for staying longer. Results: For all groups, poor health, wish for more leisure, and economy were the most salient expected reasons for retiring. Many would stay longer if there were better possibilities for more leisure time, more work flexibility, and economic benefits. Those expecting to retire before state pension age were more likely to point at desire for more leisure time as expected reason for retiring, and less likely to point at economic reasons, and more likely to point at health and work demands as possible reasons for prolonging working life. Those expecting to retire after state pension age were more likely to point at external factors and recognition from the management. Conclusion: Factors influencing retirement decisions are similar across the groups. Initiatives for better work–life balance, healthy lifestyle, and economic incentives to continue working may help prevent early retirement and motivate prolonging work life beyond retirement. Results also indicate that less strenuous work is particularly relevant to prevent early retirement.

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Factors Contributing to Retirement Decisions in Denmark: Comparing Employees Who Expect to Retire before, at, and after the State Pension Age

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Andersen

2020

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“…This entails a gender inequality (SDG 5), since voluntary care is more common among women. As a result, women also get lower retirement pensions (Björklund, Brushammar, Bjursell, Nystedt, & Nilsson, 2018). Moreover, prolonged employment after retirement age is not self-evident for every employee who wants or needs to, since this possibility is most often reserved for the highly educated (Bjursell, Nystedt, Björklund, & Sternäng, 2017), i.e.…”

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“…SDG 10. For those without possibilities for prolonged employment with their original employer, staffing agencies offer jobs for retirees, but often for lower pay than before (Björklund et al, 2018), which relates to SDGs 8 and 10.…”

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Making sustainability in occupational therapy visible by relating to the Agenda 2030 goals – A case description of a Swedish university

Wagman

Johansson

Jansson

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World Federation of Occupational Therapists Bulletin

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Occupational therapy has a lot to contribute to sustainable development considering the discipline's occupational focus and knowledge. This has been recognised by researchers and professional associations, but there is still a scarcity of research explicitly mentioning sustainability. Relevant contributions may be identified by relating education and research to the Agenda 2030 sustainable development goals. The aim of this article was to describe explicit and implicit inclusion of sustainable development and Agenda 2030 goals in occupational therapy education and research at one Swedish university. Current course syllabi and study guides, as well as research over the past five-year period, were examined and related to sustainability. The results showed that although only a few courses and articles were explicitly related to sustainable development, more course and research content became relevant when this content was compared with the sustainable development goals. It can be concluded that sustainability was more extensively addressed than first visible, but further studies including more universities are warranted.

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The new meaning of retirement for bridge employees: Situating bridge employment through the lens of the Kaleidoscope Career Model

Mazumdar,

Warren,

Brown

2024

Human Resource Dev Quarterly

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Retirees re‐entering the workforce, popularly termed as bridge employment, is a phenomenon that is anticipated to increase in the coming years. Though research establishes that these employees have unique aspirations and work motives (see Mazumdar et al., 2020), primary research on how the retirement transition and bridge employment shape each other is scarce. This is troubling because a better understanding of the aspirations and motives of potential employees is an important step in designing suitable employee development strategies. To fill this gap in the literature, our paper explores the significance of retirement for those retirees who engage in bridge employment. We also explore whether bridge employment is unique from pre‐retirement employment. We interviewed 26 bridge employees and analyzed their narrations using the thematic analysis method. We utilized the Kaleidoscope Career Model by Mainiero and Sullivan (2005) to contextualize our analysis. Our study reveals that bridge employees uniquely reconstruct the meaning of retirement as a frontier between “prioritizing the obligations” and “prioritizing self.” Our findings also demonstrate how this view allows retirees to prioritize self‐directed goals during bridge employment. Our paper enriches the human resource development literature on careers and retirement by examining it from the vantage point of bridge employees. We shed light on how re‐framing the narratives of retirement helps distinguish between bridge employment and pre‐retirement employment for retirees. Better understanding this distinction can help lay the foundation for crafting suitable employee development programs for improved motivation and retention.

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A scoping review of the incentives for a prolonged work life after pensionable age and the importance of “bridge employment”

Abstract: Attitudes and behavior according to a prolonged work life could be summarized as dependent on good health, a financial gain in combination with flexible alternative working conditions.

Cited by 48 publications

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Factors Contributing to Retirement Decisions in Denmark: Comparing Employees Who Expect to Retire before, at, and after the State Pension Age

Factors Contributing to Retirement Decisions in Denmark: Comparing Employees Who Expect to Retire before, at, and after the State Pension Age

Making sustainability in occupational therapy visible by relating to the Agenda 2030 goals – A case description of a Swedish university

The new meaning of retirement for bridge employees: Situating bridge employment through the lens of the Kaleidoscope Career Model

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