Review of the final fast-track conference Understanding the employment participation of older workers Wenke Apt 13th General Assembly Meeting of the JPI MYBL 25 March 2015 Vienna

Labour market Legislation Financial factors Social position Domestic factors HRM interventions Work factors Health Work ability Motivation 2 Data source: Eurostat 2013 (retrieved May 2013)

Final report Executive Summary 1Introduction to the project 2Understanding the complexity of employment participation at higher working age 3Domain Chapters 4National Reports 5Project Results 5.1Introduction 5.2Retirement and non-retirement 5.3Research approaches and methodology 5.4Specific domains 5.4.1The health domain 5.4.2The domestic domain 5.4.3New work exposures 5.5Specific groups 5.5.1Older women 5.5.2Migrants 5.5.3Social position 5.6Policy-related aspects 5.6.1The employers’ perspective 5.6.2Organisational intervention 5.6.3Societal costs and gains of policy changes 6Conclusions 6.1Findings 6.2Recommendations 6.2.1Conceptual gap: Bridging the lack of a broad view 6.2.2Regional gap: Levelling of uneven cross-national coverage of research 6.2.3Filling thematic gaps in retirement research 6.3Final remarks 7References

Research coverage by country and domain Synthesis of findings in: Hasselhorn HM, Apt W (2015). “Understanding employment participation of older workers: Creating a knowledge base for future labour market challenges.” Research Report. BMAS/ BAuA, Berlin, 120 pages. Online available at: demographic.eu/about/fast-track-projects/understanding-employmenthttp:// demographic.eu/about/fast-track-projects/understanding-employment

Final conference in Berlin  Date: 5 and 6 February 2015  Venue: Federal Press Office, Berlin  Organizers: VDI/VDE-IT, Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs  Participants: about 120 representatives of research, policy, social partners, research funding organizations and industry  German pre-event for policy-relevant stakeholders (“policy lunch”) and 1,5-day scientific conference

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