Research Group

Labor Demography

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

Working-Life Expectancy at Older Age

Conducted by Mikko Myrskylä; Christian Dudel, Angelo Lorenti; in Collaboration with Jo Mhairi Hale (University of St Andrews, United Kingdom), Elke Loichinger, Sebastian Klüsener (both: Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden, Germany)

Detailed Description

Working-life expectancy at older age is a major indicator of the success or failure of policy measures to increase the length of working life. This indicator estimates how much of the remaining lifetime will be spent in employment or in labor-market activity. In this project, we assess how working-life expectancy at older age has developed in recent years, how it differs between institutional settings, how it depends on economic trends, and how it differs between socioeconomic groups. In contrast to earlier research, we not only focus on period working-life expectancy but also look at working-life expectancy for birth cohorts, and we use longitudinal survey data and rich register data.

Publications

Solovieva, S.; de Wind, A.; Undem, K.; Dudel, C.; Mehlum, I. S.; van den Heuvel, S. G.; Robroek, S. J. W.; Leinonen, T.:

Socioeconomic differences in working life expectancy: a scoping review

BMC Public Health 24:735, 1–17. (2024)    

Dudel, C.; Loichinger, E.; Klüsener, S.; Sulak, H.; Myrskylä, M.:

The extension of late working life in Germany: trends, inequalities, and the East-West divide

Demography, 1–23. (2023)    

Dudel, C.; Loichinger, E.; Klüsener, S.; Sulak, H.; Myrskylä, M.:

How long do older Germans work?

N-IUSSP, Florence. (2023)    

Dudel, C.:

Healthy and unhealthy working-life expectancy: opportunities and challenges

The Lancet Healthy Longevity 2:10, e604–e605. (2021)    

Dudel, C.; Loichinger, E.; Klüsener, S.; Sulak, H.; Myrskylä, M.:

The extension of late working life in Germany: trends, inequalities, and the East-West divide

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-018. (2021)    

Hale, J. M.; Dudel, C.; Lorenti, A.:

Cumulative disparities in the dynamics of working poverty for later-career U.S. workers (2002-2012)

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 7, 1–19. (2021)    

Dudel, C.; Myrskylä, M.:

Cohort trends in working life expectancies at age 50 in the United States: a register-based study using social security administration data

Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 75:7, 1504–1514. (2020)    

Hale, J. M.; Dudel, C.; Lorenti, A.:

Cumulative disparities in the dynamics of working poverty for later-career U.S. workers (2002-2012)

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-028. (2020)    

Lorenti, A.; Dudel, C.; Hale, J. M.; Myrskylä, M.:

Working and disability expectancies at older ages: the role of childhood circumstances and education

Social Science Research 91:102447, 1–17. (2020)    

Lorenti, A.; Dudel, C.; Hale, J. M.; Myrskylä, M.:

Working and disability expectancies at old ages: the role of childhood circumstances and education

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-006. (2020)    

Dudel, C.; Myrskylä, M.:

How long do older Americans work?

N-IUSSP, Paris. (2018)    

Dudel, C.; Myrskylä, M.:

Working life expectancy at age 50 in the US and the impact of the Great Recession

Demography 54:6, 2101–2123. (2017)    

Dudel, C.; Myrskylä, M.:

Recent trends in US working life expectancy at age 50 by gender, education, and race/ethnicity and the impact of the Great Recession

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2016-006. (2016)