Do good working conditions make you work longer? Analyzing retirement decisions using linked survey and register data
Abstract
We analyzed the role of adverse working conditions and new management practices in the determination of employees’ retirement behavior. The combined data contain both comprehensive information on perceived job disamenities, job satisfaction, and intentions to retire from two nationally representative cross-sectional surveys and information on employees’ actual retirement decisions from longitudinal register data that can be linked to the surveys. Using a trivariate ordered probit model, we find that job dissatisfaction arising from adverse working conditions is significantly related to intentions to retire and that this, in turn, is related to actual retirement during an extensive follow-up period.
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Format
Articles
Research article
Published
2020
Series
Subjects
Publication in research information system
Publisher
Elsevier BV
The permanent address of the publication
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202011246726Käytä tätä linkitykseen.
Review status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
2212-828X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeoa.2019.02.001
Language
English
Published in
Journal of the Economics of Ageing
Citation
- Böckerman, P., & Ilmakunnas, P. (2020). Do good working conditions make you work longer? Analyzing retirement decisions using linked survey and register data. Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 17, Article 100192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeoa.2019.02.001
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Funder(s)
Research Council of Finland
Funding program(s)
Strategic research programmes, AoF
Strategisen tutkimuksen ohjelmat STN, SA
Additional information about funding
This research was financially supported by the Academy of Finland Strategic Research Council Project Work, Inequality and Public Policy (project number 293120) and the HSE Foundation. We are grateful to two reviewers, an editorial board member, and the participants at the EALE conference (Lyon) for their comments.
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