Effects of digital skills and other individual factors on retirement decision-making and their gender differences
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43110%2F23%3A43924069" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43110/23:43924069 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-023-00784-9" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-023-00784-9</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10433-023-00784-9" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10433-023-00784-9</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Effects of digital skills and other individual factors on retirement decision-making and their gender differences
Original language description
Increasing the pension age as a dominant solution to population ageing does not bring desirable outcomes, if not accompanied by other essential measures in lifelong learning and fighting age discrimination. Moreover, rapid digitalisation and automation in the labour market bring additional uncertainties for the growing group of older workers. The analysis is based on the SHARE data from Waves 5, 6, and 7 and examines predictors of retirement intentions by two different estimation methods. While digital skills are positively associated with a willingness to stay in the labour market in the random-effect modelling, fixed-effects regression shows no correlation between digital skills and retirement intentions. This difference means that digital skills do not correlate with retirement intentions once we control for time-invariant individual characteristics. Thus, increasing ICT literacy among older workers can have a very limited potential for extending working lives. In contrast to this result, starting to be self-employed, health improvement, having an additional grandchild, and losing a partner increase the willingness to work longer. The study identifies the factors shaping retirement intentions, which should be reflected in any effective social policy.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA21-08447S" target="_blank" >GA21-08447S: Digitalisation in the Labour Market: Challenges, Opportunities and Inequalities for Older Workers</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
European Journal of Ageing
ISSN
1613-9372
e-ISSN
1613-9380
Volume of the periodical
20
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
38
UT code for WoS article
001079931800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85173923831