Abstract
European populations are ageing, which is challenging European welfare states. To ensure sustainable pension systems and the availability of skilled labour, many European countries reverse the early exit trends from the 1980s and 1990s. However, opportunities and abilities to continue working in late working life are distributed unequally across social groups and countries differ in the conditions they provide to extend working lives. The aim of this paper is to examine the role of macro-social change for the development of late working life inequalities. In specific, it examines how gender inequalities in late working life evolve in different European countries and how this is connected to macro-institutional, -economic and -demographic change.
Presenters
Annika HeuerLinköping University 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 Gülin Öylü
PhD Student, Ageing and Social Change, Linköping University, Sweden
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2024 Special Focus—Diversity Over Time: Changes in Individual, Organizational, and Place Contexts
KEYWORDS
Work, Employment, Aging, Europe
