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Late Life Employment Histories and Their Association With Work and Family Formation During Adulthood: A Sequence Analysis Based on ELSA

OBJECTIVES: To extend research on workforce participation beyond age 50 by describing entire employment histories in later life and testing their links to prior life course conditions. METHODS: We use data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, with retrospective information on employment hi...

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Autores principales: Wahrendorf, Morten, Zaninotto, Paola, Hoven, Hanno, Head, Jenny, Carr, Ewan
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6146763/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28575487
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbx066
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author Wahrendorf, Morten
Zaninotto, Paola
Hoven, Hanno
Head, Jenny
Carr, Ewan
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Zaninotto, Paola
Hoven, Hanno
Head, Jenny
Carr, Ewan
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description OBJECTIVES: To extend research on workforce participation beyond age 50 by describing entire employment histories in later life and testing their links to prior life course conditions. METHODS: We use data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, with retrospective information on employment histories between age 50 and 70 for 1,103 men and 1,195 women (n = 2,298). We apply sequence analysis and group respondents into eight clusters with similar histories. Using multinomial regressions, we then test their links to labor market participation, partnership, and parenthood histories during early (age 20–34) and mid-adulthood (age 35–49). RESULTS: Three clusters include histories dominated by full-time employees but with varying age of retirement (before, at, and after age 60). One cluster is dominated by self-employment with comparatively later retirement. Remaining clusters include part-time work (retirement around age 60 or no retirement), continuous domestic work (mostly women), or other forms of nonemployment. Those who had strong attachments to the labor market during adulthood are more likely to have histories of full-time work up until and beyond age 60, especially men. Parenthood in early adulthood is related to later retirement (for men only). Continued domestic work was not linked to parenthood. Partnered women tend to work part-time or do domestic work. The findings remain consistent after adjusting for birth cohort, childhood adversity, life course health, and occupational position. DISCUSSION: Policies aimed at increasing the proportion of older workers not only need to address later stages of the life course but also early and mid-adulthood.
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spelling pubmed-61467632018-09-25 Late Life Employment Histories and Their Association With Work and Family Formation During Adulthood: A Sequence Analysis Based on ELSA Wahrendorf, Morten Zaninotto, Paola Hoven, Hanno Head, Jenny Carr, Ewan J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci The Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences OBJECTIVES: To extend research on workforce participation beyond age 50 by describing entire employment histories in later life and testing their links to prior life course conditions. METHODS: We use data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, with retrospective information on employment histories between age 50 and 70 for 1,103 men and 1,195 women (n = 2,298). We apply sequence analysis and group respondents into eight clusters with similar histories. Using multinomial regressions, we then test their links to labor market participation, partnership, and parenthood histories during early (age 20–34) and mid-adulthood (age 35–49). RESULTS: Three clusters include histories dominated by full-time employees but with varying age of retirement (before, at, and after age 60). One cluster is dominated by self-employment with comparatively later retirement. Remaining clusters include part-time work (retirement around age 60 or no retirement), continuous domestic work (mostly women), or other forms of nonemployment. Those who had strong attachments to the labor market during adulthood are more likely to have histories of full-time work up until and beyond age 60, especially men. Parenthood in early adulthood is related to later retirement (for men only). Continued domestic work was not linked to parenthood. Partnered women tend to work part-time or do domestic work. The findings remain consistent after adjusting for birth cohort, childhood adversity, life course health, and occupational position. DISCUSSION: Policies aimed at increasing the proportion of older workers not only need to address later stages of the life course but also early and mid-adulthood. Oxford University Press 2018-09 2017-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC6146763/ /pubmed/28575487 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbx066 Text en © The Author(s) 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle The Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences
Wahrendorf, Morten
Zaninotto, Paola
Hoven, Hanno
Head, Jenny
Carr, Ewan
Late Life Employment Histories and Their Association With Work and Family Formation During Adulthood: A Sequence Analysis Based on ELSA
title Late Life Employment Histories and Their Association With Work and Family Formation During Adulthood: A Sequence Analysis Based on ELSA
title_full Late Life Employment Histories and Their Association With Work and Family Formation During Adulthood: A Sequence Analysis Based on ELSA
title_fullStr Late Life Employment Histories and Their Association With Work and Family Formation During Adulthood: A Sequence Analysis Based on ELSA
title_full_unstemmed Late Life Employment Histories and Their Association With Work and Family Formation During Adulthood: A Sequence Analysis Based on ELSA
title_short Late Life Employment Histories and Their Association With Work and Family Formation During Adulthood: A Sequence Analysis Based on ELSA
title_sort late life employment histories and their association with work and family formation during adulthood: a sequence analysis based on elsa
topic The Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6146763/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28575487
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbx066
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