cover image: Poor health constitutes the main reason for early retirement. How is this linked to working conditions and what are the measures required to tackle

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Poor health constitutes the main reason for early retirement. How is this linked to working conditions and what are the measures required to tackle

12 Jan 2021

Health can be both a push and a stay factor in determining early retirement Being in a good state of health has many dimensions, as the definition of health by the World Health Organ- isation indicates: “Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”1 In research, factors supporting withdrawal from the labour market (push,. [...] While between 67 and 74 per cent of individuals in the age group 45-64 from the Nordic countries of Sweden, Finland and Denmark perceived that they were in good or very good health in 2018, the equivalent figure for the Baltic countries and Poland was drastically lower, between 36 and 50 percent. [...] org/10.1787/9789264088856-en 3 A trend of decreasing share of disability pension beneficiaries in the Nordic countries, while the trend is the opposite in some Baltic countries When it comes to the number of people benefitting from a pension due to disability, the countries in the BSR showed two different trends between 2011 and 2017. [...] Research from 2018 indicates a dichotomisation of the Swedish labour market in terms of re- tirement patterns, where the risk of leaving the labour market early is much higher among manual workers than among non-manual employees.21 Of the 10 occupations where the earliest withdrawal from the labour market is seen in Sweden, seven belong to the category of manual workers.22 The top-10 occupations i. [...] The overarching aim of the project is to support the improvement of working conditions and lifelong learning provisions, systems and policies for the older labour force in order to promote active ageing and employability.
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