Work

Austria

Year: 2020

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: This chapter deals with the labour market situation of older (50+) workers and pension policies in Austria, a country where gender differences are strongly pronounced over the entire lifecourse. The target of recent policies is not primarily to tackle the negative effects of the system for women, but to decrease pension costs by discouraging early retirement and inducing employers to keep and/or employolder workers. However, this will have some gendered effects since recent policy changes will increase women’s lower legal retirement age stepwise (60) to match that of men (65) in 2033. Although caring time already partly contributes to pension payments, this does not substantially decrease the large gender pensiongap.

Source: Springer eBooks

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-40985-2_8

Authors: Barbara Haas, Michaela Gstrein, Roland Bildsteiner

Institutions: Vienna University of Economics and Business, WPZ Research GmbH (Austria)

Language: English

Topic: Retirement, Disability, and Employment

Subfield: Demography

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Decent work and economic growth, Gender equality, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: European Cooperation in Science and Technology