European Policy Analysis Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 2016 | Page 79

European Policy Analysis

The data also showed that among
hired people (employees), there is the
highest proportion of those who would
like to stop working after the official
retirement age. It can be closely related to
the flexible working arrangements that are
more acceptable for the people who want
to continue in employment and usually
unavailable within employee position.

The opinions of the self-employed

were distributed equally, that is, they
want to both work and to retire, except
Poland where a greater number of the selfemployed want to retire, probably because
these persons are mostly agricultural
workers. Occupation in the agricultural
sector is usually related to the heavy
physical workload that increases the
probability of retiring.

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Employee

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Self-employed

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Working for own family business

Figure 2. Wanted to retire by the type of employment relation (%, ESS5)

The major differences noticeable
in the countries according to the variable
“what type of organization work/worked
for” were between the representatives
of the public and private sectors. In
Lithuania, the public sector employment
is more than 30% of total employment,
whereas in Bulgaria, as well as in Hungary,
Slovenia, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia,
Slovakia, it is between 20% and 30%.
This share is less than 20% in the Czech
Republic and Romania (Sirovátka, Greve,
and Hora 2011).

Among the respondents who are
willing to stay in paid work, the share

of those working in the public sector
and state-owned enterprises is slightly
higher in Bulgaria (74% and 66%,
respectively) and Lithuania (80% and
74%, respectively).

In Slovenia, Poland, Hungary, and
Estonia the share of the people from the
private sector who preferred to continue
in paid work was higher (22%, 20%, 31%
and 30% respectively)

ESS 5 data suggest that, in the
Czech Republic and Slovakia, the sector
(public or private) has little influence
on the preference to stay or leave from
employment in old age.
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