Di Gessa, G;
Grundy, E;
(2017)
The Dynamics of Paid and Unpaid Activities Among People Aged 50–69 in Denmark, France, Italy, and England.
Research on Aging
, 39
(9)
pp. 1013-1038.
10.1177/0164027516654521.
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Abstract
In the context of the current policy emphasis on extending working lives, we investigate whether the relationship between participation in paid work, other formal, and informal activities among people aged 50–69 is complementary or competitive. We also investigate differences in associations between countries using comparable longitudinal data from Denmark, France, Italy, and England. We 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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Dynamics of Paid and Unpaid Activities Among People Aged 50–69 in Denmark, France, Italy, and England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0164027516654521 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027516654521 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author(s) 2016. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | ELSA, SHARE, dynamics of engagement, paid work, formal activities, informal activities |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Epidemiology and Public Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10070195 |
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