Labor Participation of Retirement-Aged Workers: Understanding the Influencing Mechanism of Health Status and Social Pension Insurance Participation. Issue 2 (February 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yuan, Bocong; Li, Jiannan; Lan, Junbang
• Is Part Of: Journal of occupational and environmental medicine. Volume 64:Issue 2(2022)
• Publication Date: 2022-02
• Subjects: delayed retirement initiative -- health conditions -- labor market exit -- pension participation; Medicine, Industrial -- Periodicals; Environmental health -- Periodicals; Occupational Medicine -- Periodicals; Environmental Medicine -- Periodicals; Environmental health; Medicine, Industrial; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 616.9803
• DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002444
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1076-2752

Abstract

Abstract : Background: Delayed retirement initiative is taken as one of the proposed solutions to population aging. Rare research attention has been paid to determinants in decisions-making of late retirement. Method: This study applies data from CHARLS survey (2018) that traces the health status among older adults in China, and implements the stepwise multiple regression analysis adjusted with robust standard errors on individual level. Results: The difficulty in instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) and chronic conditions could increase the intention of retirement-aged workers to withdraw from late career participation; and the overlay of both would interact to reinforce such intention. Besides, the employment-related social pension participation could further strengthen the jointly contributing effect of both on withdrawal from late career participation. Conclusion: The triple interaction mechanism in retirement-aged workers' decisions of late retirement needs considering in the policy formulation of delayed retirement initiative. Abstract : Policymakers should be aware of older adults' decision-making of the late career participation, which is important in the establishment of delayed retirement initiative. The disparity in health status and pension insurance participation among older adults are critical in decision-making about delaying retirement.