To sustain a viable public pension system, many governments have increased the statutory
retirement age and delayed the age of entitlement to public pension benefits. This …

BACKGROUND: With a growing share of older people in almost every population,
discussions are being held worldwide about how to guarantee welfare in the immediate …

Background The aims of the present study were to: 1) gain insight into reasons for working
beyond the statutory retirement age from older workers' perspectives, and 2) explore how …

How are gendered work–family life courses associated with financial well-being in
retirement? In this article we compare the cohorts born 1920–1950 in West Germany and …

In the 1990s, the World Health Organization adopted the term''active ageing'', which
currently represents a key vision of old age in Western societies facing the situation of …

Background: Although extended work activity is often associated with active and healthy
ageing, it meets with a polarized response. Studying workers' lived experience may provide …

How are employment and family experiences simultaneously linked to the timing of
retirement? Based on a life course perspective, this article aims to understand the way in …

Over the past years, older persons' workforce participation has increased and, after years of
studying early retirement, the focus has gradually shifted to workforce participation between …

The main purpose of the study is to explore the motivational and hindering factors to become
an entrepreneur or self-employed in a later age. Becoming an entrepreneur or self …

Work constitutes a central component of a person's identity. Retirement, which is a
significant change in life, also affects the way one's identity is established upon entering this …