Early retirement intentions: the impact of employment biographies, work stress and health among a baby-boomer generation.

ABSTRACT: In recent years, early retirement decisions have become more frequent in the European Union despite political efforts to prevent early retirement. This is a growing problem for the social security system. The study focuses on a life course approach using employment biographies and investigates the influence of work stress and health on early retirement intentions. Data of employees who were born in either 1959 or 1965 of the German cohort study on work, age, health and work participation are analysed (n = 3338). By linking survey and register data from 1993 to 2011, a sequence analysis is conducted to identify employment biographies. To analyse the relationship between the employment biographies and intended early retirement, a longitudinal path analysis is computed and includes wor

SUBMITTER: Toczek L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9729676 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature