Do Good Working Conditions Make You Work Longer? Evidence on Retirement Decisions Using Linked Survey and Register Data

Arbeitspapier

We analyze the potential role of adverse working conditions and management practices in the determination of employees' retirement behavior. Our data contain both comprehensive information regarding perceived job disamenities, job satisfaction, and intentions to retire from nationally representative cross-sectional surveys and information on employees' actual retirement decisions from longitudinal register data that can be linked to the surveys. Using a trivariate ordered probit model, we observe that job dissatisfaction arising from adverse working conditions is significantly related to intentions to retire, and this in turn is related to actual retirement during the follow-up period.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10964

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Retirement; Retirement Policies ; Safety; Job Satisfaction; Related Public Policy ; Labor-Management Relations; Industrial Jurisprudence
• Subject: working conditions ; job satisfaction ; retirement ; new management practices

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Böckerman, Petri ; Ilmakunnas, Pekka
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2017

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/170948
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