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In line or at odds with active ageing policies?
— Exploring patterns of retirement preferences in Europe | | Author(s) | Dirk Hofacker |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 35, no 7, August 2015 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, August 2015 |
| Pages | pp 1529-1556 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Employment of older people ; Retirement policy ; Retirement ; Attitude ; Social surveys ; Europe. |
| Annotation | Faced with demographic ageing, European policy makers since the mid-1990s have turned away from fostering early retirement to promoting longer working life by reducing early exit incentives and facilitating work continuation. However, it remains open whether these reforms are yet reflected in the retirement plans and preferences of future pensioners' cohorts. Using most recent data on desired retirement ages from the fifth wave of the European Social Survey (2010/11 wave), this paper empirically investigates how far current policy reforms are in line with the retirement age preferences of older workers aged 45 and over. Results show that older workers approaching retirement age still intend to retire before the politically envisioned age of 65, and in many cases also before nationally defined standard retirement ages. Despite visible progress in implementing active ageing measures, the challenge of motivating older workers to continue working until or even beyond retirement ages thus remains. At the same time, there are regime-specific problem groups that face difficulties in adjusting to the active ageing paradigm of longer working life. This is especially so in countries with little employment support, where those with unstable work careers, employment interruptions and few financial resources are at a high risk of being crowded out from late career employment and thus from the possibility of ensuring a decent standard of living in old age. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150717208 A |
| Classmark | GC: G5: G3: DP: 3F: 74 |
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