Age and Working Capacity
- This chapter examines how the subjective assessment of work capacity is related to age using the Finnish Quality of Working Life Survey (QWLS) from the year 2003. The results provide clear evidence that employees' own assessment of their working capacity falls with age while there is no corresponding decline in wages by age. However, the fall in working capacity is not dramatic, as the majority of the older age groups still consider their working capacity to be relatively high in a scale from 0 to 10. Age affects working capacity, as least to the extent that the employees themselves think so.
Author: | Pekka Ilmakunnas, Jan van Ours, Vegard Skirbekk, Matthias WeissORCiD |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199587131.003.0013 |
ISBN: | 9780199587131 |
Parent Title (English): | Ageing, health, and productivity : The economics of increased life expectancy |
Publisher: | Oxford Univ. Press |
Place of publication: | Oxford |
Editor: | Pietro Garibaldi |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2010 |
Release Date: | 2022/12/01 |
Tag: | QWLS; assessment; productivity; wages; working capacity |
First Page: | 179 |
Last Page: | 188 |
Institutes: | Fakultät Betriebswirtschaft |
Publication: | Externe Publikationen |
research focus: | Lebenswissenschaften und Ethik |
Licence (German): | Keine Lizenz - Es gilt das deutsche Urheberrecht: § 53 UrhG |