Minder werken vóór pensioen: plannen en realiteit – After-lunch webinar Camilla Marabini

Netspar organiseert dit After-lunch Webinar voor (medewerkers van) partners. Hierin presenteren onderzoekers nieuw pensioenonderzoek, ontvangen zij feedback en worden vragen beantwoord. Zo brengen we wetenschap en praktijk dichter bij elkaar.

In dit online After-lunch Webinar vertelt Camilla Marabini (NIDI) meer over het onderzoek “Who reduces working hours before retirement? Plans and reality ”

Dit webinar is in het Engels:

Policies that aim to extend working lives pose challenges for older workers with high job demands, caregiving duties, and personal health problems. To address these challenges, policymakers have proposed facilitating work hour reductions in the years before retirement. However, it is still unclear whether older employees in demanding situations are relatively more likely to (plan to) reduce their work hours before retirement, and whether work hour reduction arrangements in their company are especially enabling them to do so. Using the NIDI Pension Panel, we compare the preretirement work hour reduction plans and subsequent behaviour of 1,241 full-time older Dutch employees (aged 60-63 at Wave 1) across an eight-year period. Our findings suggests that one out of four employees plans to reduce their work hours before retirement, and one third eventually reduces them. When a work hour reduction arrangement is available, older employees are more likely to reduce their work hours before retirement. Older workers who experience high job pressure are more likely to reduce their work hours, particularly when a work hour reduction arrangement is available. Contrary to our expectations, chronic health conditions and caregiving burden were not associated with planned nor actual working hour reductions. Overall, our results show that work hour reduction arrangements are key in enabling work hour reductions before retirement. Moreover, they facilitate work hour reductions for some, but not all employees in demanding situations. We discuss how such arrangements contribute to sustainable ageing, considering the tensions between financial and social sustainability.”

Vragen en input op dit lopende onderzoek zijn van harte welkom.
Dit onderzoek wordt uitgevoerd samen met Marleen Damman (UMCG), Kène Henkens (NIDI)