Article "Current and future challenges for a long and healthy working life" (18th)

Clarisa livia
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In the next decade, the German working population will shrink and age with some major impacts to the social security system. As a consequence, policymakers want to increase labor market participation among individuals with higher working ages. Although the rate of participation of the older individual workforce has increased over the past few years, their participation rate is still lower than in other working age groups. A low level of continuous participation can be found among men and women aged 60 and above.

It is largely unknown whether and to what extent older workers are severely affected by organizational change in working life. Potential job stress factors are increasing and may have an impact on the participation of individual labor. Examples include increased job insecurity, increased speed of work, demands for increased personal responsibility and labor flexibility. In addition, the workload of certain working groups may be a particular challenge for older workers. Otherwise, past organizational changes also offer more flexible active role opportunities in the labor market and increase participation in general.

Here, the risks and challenges are not distributed equally across the older workforce. Some people are severely affected by certain workloads and leave the labor market relatively young. Others want to participate in the labor market even after the legal retirement age, or need to continue working, eg. for financial reasons Against this backdrop the workshop "Aging in labor participation. Current and future challenges for long working life" addresses the challenges faced by parents in the labor market as well as specific approaches to increasing labor market participation of elderly workers .