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Working longer, feeling worse? How job quality shapes the mental health toll of delayed retirement

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  • Lugova, Alexandra
  • Belloni, Michele
  • Legendre, Bérangère
  • Tanguy, Jeremy

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This paper examines the impact of delayed retirement, induced by pension reforms, on late-career mental health, focusing on working conditions. While studies have analysed aspects of job quality – such as high-strain roles and automation risk – none have considered the full range of job characteristics shaping workers’ experiences. We address this gap by analysing six key dimensions of job quality: skills and discretion, working time quality, physical environment, social environment, work intensity, and career prospects. To mitigate endogeneity concerns in self-reported mental health measures, we incorporate occupation-level data on working conditions from external sources.

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  • Lugova, Alexandra & Belloni, Michele & Legendre, Bérangère & Tanguy, Jeremy, 2026. "Working longer, feeling worse? How job quality shapes the mental health toll of delayed retirement," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 100(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:labeco:v:100:y:2026:i:c:s0927537126000229
    DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2026.102871
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