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Can we really (all) work longer? Trends in healthy life expectancy according to social stratum in Germany
Können wir (alle) überhaupt länger arbeiten? Trends in der gesunden Lebenserwartung nach Sozialschicht in Deutschland
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Abstract "Against the background of raising the retirement age to 67 years and the associated lengthening of working lifetimes in higher age groups, this article examines the question of the extent to which this political objective is covered by the health assets of the population. Here, the authors will fir... view more
"Against the background of raising the retirement age to 67 years and the associated lengthening of working lifetimes in higher age groups, this article examines the question of the extent to which this political objective is covered by the health assets of the population. Here, the authors will first trace trends in 'healthy' life expectancy among the total population for different points in time 1989, 1999 and 2009 on the basis of the data from the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and analyze these against the background of social strata indicators such as income and educational levels. Among others, one significant result is the fact that social differences have a far greater effect on healthy life expectancy than on general life expectancy and that these differences increase further over the course of time. This effect can be found particularly in men. One mandatory uniform working lifetime for all persons would however not do justice to these findings of socially highly unequally distributed life opportunities. Instead, the findings support a flexible arrangement of retirement age limits." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
lifetime work period; Federal Republic of Germany; health status; equal opportunity; morbidity; age limit; social stratum; retirement age; population; life expectancy; class membership; social change; flexibility
Classification
Medical Sociology
Population Studies, Sociology of Population
Health Policy
Method
applied research; empirical; quantitative empirical
Free Keywords
compression of morbidity
Document language
English
Publication Year
2013
Page/Pages
p. 565-582
Journal
Comparative Population Studies - Zeitschrift für Bevölkerungswissenschaft, 38 (2013) 3
Issue topic
Private life choices, employment and health
ISSN
1869-8999
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
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