Background and aims. This thesis took a life course approach to examining inequalities in
quality of life in early old age using the French occupational cohort GAZEL. The cohort …

Objectives: This article aims to contribute to the literature on life course influences upon
quality of life by examining pathways linking social position in middle age to quality of life …

Objective: To investigate variations in quality of life at older ages, we take a life course
perspective to analyse long-term effects of physical working conditions upon quality of life …

This article summarizes previous employment histories and studies associations between
types of histories and quality of life in older ages. Retrospective information from the Survey …

This paper uses data from four waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in
Europe (SHARE) and investigates the effect of job quality on CASP-12, which is a measure …

The German population is ageing due to decreasing birth rates and increasing life
expectancy. To sustain the German pension system, legal retirement age is increased step …

The ageing of the labour force and falling employment rates have forced policy makers in
industrialized countries to find means of increasing the well-being of older workers and of …

Over the last decades, labour participation rates of older adults have increased in the
Netherlands and people have extended their working lives from below age 61 in the early …

Prolonging employment and postponing retirement are seen as promising solutions to make
labour markets and pension systems sustainable in ageing Europe with low employment …

The definition of older persons-or older workers for this matter-varies across countries and
contexts. According to the United Nations, for example, older persons are those age 60 and …