Periodic Reporting for period 1 - NoWork (The long-term effects of unemployment on older workers: Studying life-course influences in social context)
Período documentado: 2016-05-01 hasta 2017-12-31
The second manuscript explores differences between the baby-boomers and generation X in Finland. It shows how life-courses reflect Finnish history, e.g. the late shift from an agricultural to a (post)industrial society. Notable cohort-differences are that women in the younger generation are better integrated into the labourmarket, and that the number of men outside the labourmarket increases. Unfortunately, women’s increasing workforce participation comes at the price of having children, women are under increasing pressure to combine paid work and caregiving to their frail parents, and the next generation of informal caregivers to older people may be too small.
The third manuscript studies how life-long work-arrangements among couples influence the retirement transition. Couples strike characteristic arrangements on how much each individual works for pay, which influences the retirement transition. Especially couples with equal labour market participation tend to retire into pension, whereas people in other arrangements tend to retire into non-employment. This effect is particularly strong in the Netherlands, it is weak in Sweden because of the high gender-equality, and it is weak in Spain because of the low number of working women. Findings suggest that helping women into paid work will help men and women to retire into pension, thereby increasing the retirement age.
Findings were disseminated e.g. through a PhD students' workshop and an international conference, two press releases, three popularized publications, six conference presentations, and two presentations at public events.