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Policy and Decision to Retire in Central and Eastern European Countries
SK
SK
CZ
CZ
SI
SI
BG
BG
3.9
0
1.8
2.4
1.7
2.5
5.3
3.8
0.6
0
98.8
96.1
100.0
98.2
97.6
98.3
97.5
94.7
96.3
99.4
100.0
Wanted
retire
Wanted
retire
Wanted
retire
Wanted
retire
Wanted
retire
Wanted
retire
Wanted
retire
to
1.2
99.7
to
0.3
98.3
to
1.7
96.7
to
3.3
100.0
to
0
96.5
to
3.5
No
Preferred to
continue in
paid work
Yes
to
Preferred to
continue in
paid work
PL
Wanted
retire
PL
Preferred to
continue in
paid work
HU
Preferred to
continue in
paid work
HU
Preferred to
continue in
paid work
EE
Preferred to
continue in
paid work
EE
Preferred to
continue in
paid work
LT
Preferred to
continue in
paid work
LT
to
Table 1. Wanted to retire and preferred to continue in paid work by the variable “Improve knowledge/skills: course/lecture/conference, last 12 months” (ESS5)
Where: W—Wanted to retire; P—Preferred to continue in paid work
100%
Not at all important
80%
Not very important
60%
40%
Fairly important
20%
Very important
0%
LT
LV
EE
HU
PL
SK
CZ
SI
BG
RO
Figure 11. Respondents by the variable “aged 55+ stop working: exclusion from training” (%, Eurobarometer 76.2)
The importance of participation
in training for working life prolongation
is observed from the Eurobarometer 76.2
survey. Exclusion from training can push
older employees from the labor market.
About 80% of the respondents from the
selected countries feel threatened by this
(considering the answers “very important”
and “fairly important”). The respondents
from Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary
are especially concerned about being
excluded from lifelong learning activities
(the respective share of the answers “very
important” is 37%, 35%, and 33%).
While comparing the two groups
of the Eurobarometer survey, participants
according to thei r willingness to work or
not to work after pension entitlement, the
exclusion from training in the older age can
be a reason to stop working for Bulgarians,
Hungarians, Slovenians, and Romanians
(the answers “very important”). In these
countries, the significant state supportive
policies in the field of promotion of
lifelong learning were absent during the
analyzed period.
The recent crisis brought serious
transformations to the structure of the
economies in the analyzed countries.
However, the structural changes in new
EU member states have generally been
greater than that in the majority of old
EU members with broader shifts from
industry toward services (Havlik 2014).
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