Part-time work and health in late careers: Evidence from a longitudinal and cross-national study

Baumann, Isabel; Madero-Cabib, Ignacio; Eyjólfsdóttir, Harpa Sif; Agahi, Neda

doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101091

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“…One way to address vulnerable groups of workers may be to improve the working conditions for those who work beyond the SRA. This option consists, for instance, of providing workers who continue working beyond the SRA with additional time to recover, for instance, a right to a continuously increasing number of vacations by age, through a statutory right to work part-time, or through flexible retirement schemes, as known by other countries [ 21 , 42 , 43 ]. In a recent study, the latter has shown to have positive effects on the health of older people prolonging their working lives [ 30 ].…”

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Financial Reasons for Working beyond the Statutory Retirement Age: Risk Factors and Associations with Health in Late Life

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Despite an increasing trend of working life prolongation, little is known about the risk factors for financial reasons for working beyond the statutory retirement age (SRA), and how these reasons relate to health. The present study examined (1) the determinants of working beyond the SRA, (2) the workers’ self-reported reasons for working beyond the SRA, and (3) the association between these reasons and health in late life. Cross-sectional data of 1241 individuals from the Swiss survey “Vivre/Leben/Vivere” were analyzed. The results showed that people with a low level of education and with a low income have an 80% higher risk of working beyond the SRA for financial reasons than for other reasons (p < 0.001). Moreover, self-rated health was not significantly associated with working beyond the SRA for financial reasons but was significantly associated with education and income (p < 0.01). In conclusion, while previous studies have already identified financial difficulties as one important reason for working beyond the SRA, the present study indicated the socioeconomic factors that are crucial for increasing the risk for working beyond the SRA. Thus, our results help to guide the adaptation of social policies for better maintaining and promoting the health of particularly vulnerable older workers.

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Financial Reasons for Working beyond the Statutory Retirement Age: Risk Factors and Associations with Health in Late Life

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“…While the influence of different welfare regimes on working-age population health has been thoroughly examined during the last two decades (see, for instance, [34,35]), only very recently have researchers started to explore how welfare regimes may shape later-life trajectories, reporting preliminary evidence that welfare regime orientation may play an important role in the association between employment trajectories and health status among older people [3,7,16,[36][37][38]. One of these studies showed that in social-democratic (and corporatist) welfare regimes, early retirement was associated with good health, while it was associated with poor health in liberal and liberal-corporatist countries [36].…”

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“…Nevertheless, a change in health status does not always lead to a change in employment status [ 13 ]. Research has shown that the extent to which the change in health status affects a change in employment status depends on factors such as the nature of the health problem [ 14 ], workers’ occupation [ 15 ], or country-level institutional factors [ 16 ]. For instance, a study from Finland shows that sickness absence from work in the case of musculoskeletal diseases differs strongly between occupations [ 14 ].…”

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Health among workers retiring after the state pension age: a longitudinal and comparative study

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Background In recent decades, many countries have observed increasing labor force participation beyond the state pension age (SPA). However, there is a lack of research on employment beyond SPA and how it relates to older workers’ health. Moreover, there is a need to better understand how institutional factors affect the relationship between older workers’ employment and health. In this study, we examine simultaneous employment and health trajectories over 11 years in 12 countries from Europe and the Americas, and study how these trajectories differ by welfare state regime and level of old-age pension redistribution. Methods We used a harmonized pooled-country dataset of 3699 older workers based on four representative panel surveys: the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), and the Chilean Social Protection Survey (EPS). We conducted multichannel sequence analysis to estimate the types of simultaneous employment–health trajectories, and multinomial regression analysis to examine the relationship between trajectory types and institutional factors. Results We found that late retirement was equally associated with poor and good health. There is also a higher prevalence of late retirement trajectories in combination with poor health in liberal welfare regimes and in countries with lower levels of old-age pension redistribution. Conclusion Our study indicates that nonliberal welfare regimes and redistributive old-age pension policies may be better suited to protect vulnerable workers while providing those in good health with the opportunity to work beyond the SPA.

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“…Extended working life in retirement age is an increasing phenomenon in current ageing populations (Ní Léime et al., 2020). Over the past 2 decades, all sorts of countries—those with or without generous social protection, with or without flexible retirement policies, with diverse welfare regime orientations, with or without sustainable pension schemes and with relatively higher or lower survival rates—have seen the growth of the labour force participation rate beyond the full pension age (FPA; i.e., the age from which one qualifies for a full pension; Baumann, Cabib, et al., 2022; Baumann, Froidevaux, et al., 2022; Baumann & Madero‐Cabib, 2019; Hofäcker et al., 2016; Madero‐Cabib et al., 2020, 2021; Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD], 2021).…”

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Socially stratified associations between self‐employment and health among Chilean older people

Madero-Cabib

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Non-standard forms of employment, such as self-employment, are among the most prevalent routes for older people to access the workforce. While the financial benefits of any form of self-employment in later life have been widely acknowledged, less is known about their impact on health. This study explores the association between self-employment and 16 health outcomes among older people with different social stratification characteristics in Chile, a developing country experiencing rapid population ageing. We rely on a rich representative life history survey of Chilean men and women between the ages 65 and 75 years (N = 802) living in the capital Santiago, weighted sequence analysis to reconstruct employment histories and weighted regression analysis to measure the association between self-employment and health in later life. All our analyses are adjusted by both individual lifetime health indicators and employment trajectories. Our results show that being self-employed relative to not working is positively associated with health in seven out of 16 outcomes.More surprisingly, those in a self-employment position seem to enjoy better health outcomes, particularly among the less educated and lower-income levels. These stratified associations raise questions about how these

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Part-time work and health in late careers: Evidence from a longitudinal and cross-national study

Cited by 8 publications

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Financial Reasons for Working beyond the Statutory Retirement Age: Risk Factors and Associations with Health in Late Life

Financial Reasons for Working beyond the Statutory Retirement Age: Risk Factors and Associations with Health in Late Life

Health among workers retiring after the state pension age: a longitudinal and comparative study

Socially stratified associations between self‐employment and health among Chilean older people

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