Director's Spotlight: Who wants to work until they're 70?
More to the point, who can? CEPAR Associate Investigator Elisabetta Magnani, using 2006 census data compiled by CEPAR Chief Investigator Peter McDonald, points to level of education as one factor which determines senior workforce participation.
“Education seems to be a big determinant, or discriminant, of who will be employed,” says Magnani, explaining that the data showed that about 25% of 70-74-year-olds with a university degree were still employed.
“But, if you look at people without a university degree this percentage is about 10%. I think that the educational level really captures a mixture of opportunities as well as opportunity cost, in the sense that probably employment at 70 needs to be well paid, otherwise people would find something else to do with their lives.”
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Life course health and wellbeing: What matters?
Vanessa Loh, a CEPAR Research Fellow based in the Ageing, Work and Health Research Unit at the University of Sydney, recently returned from a six week visit to the University of Manchester’s Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research (CCSR).
The visit was funded by CEPAR’s Early Career Researcher (ECR) travel scheme which aims to facilitate the career development of our ECRs and strengthen collaborative links with our partner organisations.The visit provided an excellent opportunity to work with CEPAR Partner Investigator Prof James Nazroo and his team on an ongoing project investigating the socioeconomic determinants of health and wellbeing across the life course.
‘A key objective of my visit was to begin work on a cross-national comparative research programme examining the differences and similarities in patterns of health, work and wellbeing between Australian-born, migrant, and English baby boomers as they age’, said Dr Loh.
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