The SHARE International Seminar Series (SISS) presents:

Working Life Patterns and Resilient Adult Life Courses in Selected European Countries

Abstract

Employment history over the life course plays an important role in shaping resilience in later life, and while employment tends to promote resilience, the relationship is complex and influenced by various individual and societal factors. The aim of this paper is to analyse the determinants of belonging to different groups describing resilience, taking into account both individual characteristics and employment history. We used the 9th wave of the SHARE survey and the SHARELife module, which contains employment histories for 28 European countries. Multinomial logistic regression was used to estimate resilience class membership, obtained in latent class modelling, in relation to several exogenous variables. The results show that employment histories characterised by part-time work or high non-employment are associated with a class with a worse profile compared to the class with the best resilience markers. A similar conclusion can be drawn for full-time work histories with many gaps.

Biography

Anita Abramowska-Kmon is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Statistics and Demography at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics. She is the head of the Demography Unit. Her research interests include: population ageing and its socio-economic consequences, including the intergenerational exchange of support as well as health status, family situation and subjective well-being of middle-aged and older people in European countries.