Individual factors of extending the working life for people with disabilities in Poland Cover Image

Indywidualne czynniki wydłużające okres aktywności zawodowej osób niepełnosprawnych w Polsce
Individual factors of extending the working life for people with disabilities in Poland

Author(s): Justyna Wiktorowicz, Łukasz Ziarko
Subject(s): Human Resources in Economy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
Keywords: economic activity; extending working life; disability; logistic regression

Summary/Abstract: Extending working life is an important challenge for modern economies. In Poland, 40% of people aged 50-64 are economically inactive. In the population of people with disabilities, this percentage is much higher (78%). The aim of this paper is to assess the individual factors for extending the working life of Poles aged 50-64 and their comparison between people with and without disabilities. The empirical analysis is based on the national survey, Social Diagnosis (for people aged 50-64). The analysis was carried out with the application of logistic regression, as well as the Student t-test, the Mann-Whitney test, the chi-squared test of independence. The logistic regression results show that the factors of extending working life for people with disabilities are different than for others – statistically significant determinants are formal outcomes of human capital development (regarding individuals without disabilities, the list of factors extending working life is more extensive).

  • Issue Year: 24/2020
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 1-14
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English