According to a study, many people up to the age of 70 are prepared to continue working even after they retire. The only important thing is that politics creates the right conditions.
According to a study, extensive measures can be used to recruit 1.36 million full-time employees among 55 to 70-year-olds by 2035. That corresponds to around 1.5 million older people, reported labor market expert Eric Thode from the Bertelsmann Foundation.
In order to encourage people in the last phase of their working life to work more, stay in the job longer or return from retirement, a whole range of steps and changes are required. This included financial incentives, labor law relief, the creation of age-appropriate jobs, but also the expansion of health care and care and support services.
In its now published model calculation commissioned by the Bertelsmann Foundation, the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) assumes that by 2035 the number of employed people in the 55 to 70 year old group will increase by around 1.5 million people due to demographic change drops – to just under 9 million.
However, this future shrinkage can be compensated for if business and politics succeed in reaching older people with tailor-made offers. And framework conditions – such as tax and legal matters – would have to be changed, Thode told the German Press Agency.
