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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.

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Author:Pekka Ilmakunnas, Jan van Ours, Vegard Skirbekk, Matthias WeissORCiD
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