Abstract
Predicted impacts of pension reform on the labour market in Poland
Highlights
The global redefinition of the approach to the length of working life is driven by demographic, social and economic changes
These differences in the supply and demand for older employees refer to the concept of two queues in the labour market that lead to occupational stratification (Reskin and Roos 1990: 29)
This article provides an analysis of factors influencing the interest in continued employment among people of pre-retirement age
Summary
Pension system reforms increasing retirement age and accentuating citizens’ individual responsibility for the amounts of their future pensions have effects on labour markets. Some of the discussion deals with the assumptions underlying the Polish pension system reform and its likely effect on longer working lives. A hypothesis is formulated that for older employees to continue employment, working conditions must improve, as the responses of both older employees and their employers reveal insufficient sensitivity to the need to adapt the conditions to the capabilities of an ageing workforce. The article is partly based on the results of a survey that a University of Lodz team conducted for the project Diagnosis of the current situation of women and men aged 50+ on the labour market in Poland, funded by the European Social Fund
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