Aging & Social Change: Twelfth Interdisciplinary Conference

Abstract

Sweden has rising and a higher participation rate compared to other OECD countries due to its reforms on pension system, active labor market policies, and higher composition of higher educated groups. However, inequality in exit timing, and early exits among blue-collar workers and lower educated groups remains. This paper combines several studies for portraying inequality and exclusion risks in late working life in Sweden and mechanisms that these inequalities and risks are generated using Swedish register data. First, various exit types and employment type trajectories among different gender and education groups are presented. Second, the link between childhood conditions, earlier working life attachment and exit timing are discussed. Third, reemployment chances and the risk of exit followed by unemployment among different age groups in late working life are explained. Finally, the role of branches and company structure in employment chances of older workers are presented.

Presenters

Gülin Öylü
PhD Student, Ageing and Social Change, Linköping University, Sweden

Andreas Motel Klingebiel
Professor in Ageing and Later Life, Research Director and Head of Division, Ageing and Social Change, Linköping University, Sweden

Susanne Kelfve
Linkoping University