Effects of digital skills and other individual factors on retirement decision-making and their gender differences.

Autor/in	Lakomý, Martin
Titel	Effects of digital skills and other individual factors on retirement decision-making and their gender differences. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Auswirkungen digitaler Kompetenzen und anderer individueller Faktoren auf die Ruhestandsentscheidung und ihre geschlechtsspezifischen Unterschiede.
Quelle	In: European journal of ageing, 20 (2023) Art. 38, 12 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1613-9380
DOI	10.1007/s10433-023-00784-9
Schlagwörter	Informationstechnologische Bildung; Sozialer Faktor; Selbstständigkeit; Familienstruktur; Gesundheitszustand; Computerkenntnisse; Berufsausstieg; Qualifikationsanforderung; Internationaler Vergleich; Auswirkung; Geschlechtsspezifik; Älterer Arbeitnehmer; Europa
Abstract	"Increasing the pension age as a dominant solution to population ageing does not bring desirable outcomes, if not accompanied by other essential measures in lifelong learning and fighting age discrimination. Moreover, rapid digitalization and automation in the labor market bring additional uncertainties for the growing group of older workers. The analysis is based on the SHARE data from Waves 5, 6, and 7 and examines predictors of retirement intentions by two different estimation methods. While digital skills are positively associated with a willingness to stay in the labor market in the random-effect modelling, fixed-effects regression shows no correlation between digital skills and retirement intentions. This difference means that digital skills do not correlate with retirement intentions once we control for time-invariant individual characteristics. Thus, increasing ICT literacy among older workers can have a very limited potential for extending working lives. In contrast to this result, starting to be self-employed, health improvement, having an additional grandchild, and losing a partner increase the willingness to work longer. The study identifies the factors shaping retirement intentions, which should be reflected in any effective social policy." The study refers to the period 2013-2017. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku)..
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2024/1