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| The dynamics of paid and unpaid activities among people aged 50-69 in Denmark, France, Italy, and England | | Author(s) | Giorgio Di Gessa, Emily Grundy |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 39, no 9, October 2017 |
| Publisher | Sage, October 2017 |
| Pages | pp 1013-1038 |
| Full text* | http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0164027516654521 |
| Annotation | In the context of the current policy emphasis on extending working lives, the authors investigate whether the relationship between participation in paid work, or other formal and informal activities among people aged 50-69 is complementary or competitive. They also investigate differences in associations between countries using comparable longitudinal data from Denmark, France, Italy and England: the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). They find positive associations between informal and formal engagement in cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses. Paid work was negatively associated with formal and informal engagement, and respondents who stopped working were more likely to be engaged in formal (Denmark and France) and informal activities (England and Italy) at follow-up than respondents who continued working. However, the strongest predictor of formal and informal engagement at follow-up was baseline engagement. In the context of policy aims to extend working lives and broaden older people's participation in other productive activities, new balances between work and other forms of engagement are still to be found. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-171027207 A |
| Classmark | GC: GH: TMB: TM2: 3J: 776K 765: 76V: 82 |
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