Estimating Working Life Expectancy: A Comparison of Multistate Models
SAGE Open, 2023 Increases in retirement ages make it particularly pressing to better understand how long people will work. Working life expectancy (WLE) is a useful measure for this and the current paper assesses the tools, that is, software packages, available to ...
Holendro Singh Chungkham +4 more
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The Paid and Unpaid Working Life Expectancy at 50 in Europe. [PDF]
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci, 2022 Abstract Objectives Amid growing concerns about the economic implications of population aging and the sustainability of older adults’ working life, unpaid family care work receives less attention despite its direct relevance to population aging. This article systematically compares the paid and unpaid
Ophir A.
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SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS AND WORKING LIFE EXPECTANCY IN SWEDEN [PDF]
Innov Aging, 2023 Abstract Longer life expectancy and fertility decline have increased concerns about the security of old-age pensions. Raising retirement ages is one strategy to offset rising costs, though the option to retire varies considerably by socioeconomic status (SES) and sex. The level of variation in SES may depend the measure used.
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Educational differences in duration of working life and loss of paid employment: working life expectancy in The Netherlands [PDF]
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2020 OBJECTIVES: This study aims to provide insight into educational differences in duration of working life by working life expectancy (WLE) and working years lost (WYL) through disability benefits and other non-employment states in the Netherlands. METHODS:
Suzan JW Robroek +3 more
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Working life expectancy and working years lost among users of part- and full-time sickness absence in Finland [PDF]
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2023 OBJECTIVES: The use of part-time sickness absence (pSA) instead of full-time sickness absence (fSA) is known to increase work participation. Yet, its effect on the total length of working lives remains unclear. We carried out a quasi-experiment to assess
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WHO WORKS LONGER IN LATER LIFE? KEY VARIATIONS IN WORKING LIFE EXPECTANCY IN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE [PDF]
Innov Aging, 2023 Abstract In the context of population aging, policymakers are eager to encourage and enable longer working lives, assuming this will lead to increased tax revenue and reduced demand on social security and health care systems. Simultaneously, individuals who work longer will gain additional income and may experience the psychosocial ...
Beach, Brian, Westerlund, Hugo
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Social inequality in working life expectancy in Sweden. [PDF]
Z Gerontol Geriatr, 2019 In Sweden there is a socioeconomic divide between white and blue collar workers with respect to the risk for premature exit from working life. Disability pension has long represented a major reason behind early exits.The present investigation aimed at studying the effect on socioeconomic groups of new guidelines issued by the Swedish government in 2006,
Kadefors R +4 more
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Work participation and working life expectancy after a disabling shoulder lesion. [PDF]
Occup Environ Med, 2019 ObjectiveTo examine the impact of a disabling non-traumatic shoulder lesion on work participation and working life expectancy.MethodsFrom a 70% random sample of the Finnish population, we selected 30–59-year-old wage earners with prolonged sickness absence due to a shoulder lesion (n=7644).
Sirén M +3 more
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Healthy and unhealthy working-life expectancy: opportunities and challenges [PDF]
The Lancet. Healthy Longevity, 2021 Christian Dudel
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The development of working life expectancy without musculoskeletal diseases against the backdrop of extended working lives [PDF]
Scientific ReportsMusculoskeletal diseases (MSDs) are a major predictor of early retirement. Against the backdrop of the extension of working life, we investigated time trends and educational inequalities in years spent in the labour market free of MSD.
Juliane Tetzlaff +7 more
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