Social and Job Market Policy Aspects of Advancing the Flexible Age Limit to the 60th Year of Age

The current job situation and ideas about life in retirement. Topics: commuting time to work; participation in retraining and measures for further education; change of job within the company and reasons for this change; expected influence of age on the last change of job; financial losses from this; judgement on job security and one´s own occupational future; work satisfaction; characterization of job demands; relationship with colleagues; assessment of personal condition of health; contacts with doctors; frequency of illness and disabilities; ideas about retirement; assumed pleasant and unpleasant aspects of retirement; experiences of friends or relatives with the time in retirement; assessment of the financial situation after retirement; assessment of the desired retirement age of colleagues; frequency of use of the flexible age limit in the company and assumed reasons for this; personal interest in utilization of the flexible age limit; planned further employment after reaching the age limit; attitude to earlier retirement with corresponding reduction in pension or increase in retirement insurance contributions; evaluation of various recommendations on improvement in the situation of older employees; preferred reduction in working hours; assumed attitude of company management to advanced retirement; lay-off actions and redundancy payments scheme in the company; monthly financial burdens.

Demography: age; sex; age of spouse; marital status; religious denomination; school education; occupational training; occupational position; occupation of spouse; income; composition of household; housing situation; degree of urbanization; city size; length of employment. Interviewer rating: length of interview and difficulties with interview. Additionally encoded was: district code.