IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/spr/eujoag/v21y2024i1d10.1007_s10433-024-00830-0.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Job satisfaction declines before retirement in Germany

Author

Listed:
  • Georg Henning

    (German Centre of Gerontology)

  • Graciela Muniz-Terrera

    (Ohio University
    University of Edinburgh)

  • Andreas Stenling

    (University of Umeå
    University of Agder)

  • Martin Hyde

    (University of Leicester)

Abstract

Job satisfaction has been found to increase with age. However, we still have a very limited understanding of how job satisfaction changes as people approach retirement. This is important as the years before retirement present specific challenges for older workers. We employed a time-to-retirement approach to investigate (i) mean levels of change in job satisfaction in the decade before retirement, and (ii) social inequalities and interindividual differences in change in pre-retirement job satisfaction. Data were drawn from the German Socioeconomic Panel Study (n = 2595). Latent growth curve modeling revealed that job satisfaction declined slightly as people approached retirement, with steeper declines in the very last years before retirement. However, the mean-level decline was very small. Education, age, health, region, marital status, and historical time, but not gender or caregiving mattered for level and change in job satisfaction before retirement. The findings demonstrate the importance of taking a time-to-retirement approach when examining experiences of older workers.

Suggested Citation

  • Georg Henning & Graciela Muniz-Terrera & Andreas Stenling & Martin Hyde, 2024. "Job satisfaction declines before retirement in Germany," European Journal of Ageing, Springer, vol. 21(1), pages 1-11, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:eujoag:v:21:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1007_s10433-024-00830-0
    DOI: 10.1007/s10433-024-00830-0
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10433-024-00830-0
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1007/s10433-024-00830-0?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to

    for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Laetitia Hauret & Donald R. Williams, 2017. "Cross-National Analysis of Gender Differences in Job Satisfaction," Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 56(2), pages 203-235, April.
    2. Huisman, Martijn & Deeg, Dorly J.H., 2010. "A commentary on Marja Jylhä's "What is self-rated health and why does it predict mortality? Towards a unified conceptual model"(69:3, 2009, 307-316)," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 70(5), pages 652-654, March.
    3. Marleen Damman & Kène Henkens & Matthijs Kalmijn, 2013. "Late-Career Work Disengagement: The Role of Proximity to Retirement and Career Experiences," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 68(3), pages 455-463.
    4. Werner Bönte & Stefan Krabel, 2014. "You can't always get what you want: gender differences in job satisfaction of university graduates," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 46(21), pages 2477-2487, July.
    5. Dobrow, Shoshana R. & Ganzach, Yoav & Liu, Yihao, 2018. "Time and job satisfaction: a longitudinal study of the differential roles of age and tenure," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 64664, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    6. van Dalen, Hendrik P. & Henkens, K. & Wang, Mo, 2015. "Recharging or retiring older workers? : Uncovering the age-based strategies of European employers," Other publications TiSEM 69faa9f6-fef8-4b59-aa70-8, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.
    7. William Meredith & John Tisak, 1990. "Latent curve analysis," Psychometrika, Springer;The Psychometric Society, vol. 55(1), pages 107-122, March.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Oude Mulders, Jaap & Henkens, C.J.I.M. & van Dalen, Hendrik Peter, 2021. "Employees’ emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses to increasing statutory retirement ages," Other publications TiSEM 4aab8515-50c9-4c23-bd2f-3, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.
    2. Maryam Dilmaghani, 2022. "Revisiting the gender job satisfaction paradox: The roots seem to run deep," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 60(2), pages 278-323, June.
    3. Johan Oud & Manuel Voelkle, 2014. "Do missing values exist? Incomplete data handling in cross-national longitudinal studies by means of continuous time modeling," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 48(6), pages 3271-3288, November.
    4. Yih-Ing Hser & Haikang Shen & Chih-Ping Chou & Stephen C. Messer & M. Douglas Anglin, 2001. "Analytic Approaches for Assessing Long-Term Treatment Effects," Evaluation Review, , vol. 25(2), pages 233-262, April.
    5. Olga Grünwald & Marleen Damman & Kène Henkens, 2022. "Does Retirement Change What Individuals Value in Life? Results From a 3-Year Panel Study [Productive aging. A conceptual framework]," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 77(9), pages 1699-1709.
    6. Laura Castro-Schilo & Barbara L. Fredrickson & Dan Mungas, 2019. "Association of Positive Affect with Cognitive Health and Decline for Elder Mexican Americans," Journal of Happiness Studies, Springer, vol. 20(8), pages 2385-2400, December.
    7. Chiara Maria, 2023. "Structural multilevel models for longitudinal mediation analysis: a definition variable approach," Statistical Papers, Springer, vol. 64(6), pages 2161-2182, December.
    8. Chun Wang & Steven W. Nydick, 2020. "On Longitudinal Item Response Theory Models: A Didactic," Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, , vol. 45(3), pages 339-368, June.
    9. Eldad Davidov & Stefan Thörner & Peter Schmidt & Stefanie Gosen & Carina Wolf, 2011. "Level and change of group-focused enmity in Germany: unconditional and conditional latent growth curve models with four panel waves," AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis, Springer;German Statistical Society, vol. 95(4), pages 481-500, December.
    10. Pietro Lovaglio & Mario Mezzanzanica, 2013. "Classification of longitudinal career paths," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 47(2), pages 989-1008, February.
    11. Sabine Hommelhoff & David Richter & Cornelia Niessen & Denis Gerstorf & Jutta Heckhausen, 2019. "Being Unengaged at Work but Still Dedicating Time and Energy: A Longitudinal Study," SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 1048, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
    12. Shu Xu & Shelley A. Blozis, 2011. "Sensitivity Analysis of Mixed Models for Incomplete Longitudinal Data," Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, , vol. 36(2), pages 237-256, April.
    13. Steiner, Jeff & Amabile, Teresa M., 2022. "What do I make of the rest of my life? Global and quotidian life construal across the retirement transition," Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Elsevier, vol. 171(C).
    14. Adolfo C. Fernández Puente & Nuria Sánchez-Sánchez, 2021. "How Gender-Based Disparities affect Women’s Job Satisfaction? Evidence from Euro-Area," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 156(1), pages 137-165, July.
    15. Ke-Hai Yuan & Peter Bentler, 2006. "Mean Comparison: Manifest Variable Versus Latent Variable," Psychometrika, Springer;The Psychometric Society, vol. 71(1), pages 139-159, March.
    16. Georgellis, Yannis & Clark, Andrew E. & Apergis, Emmanuel & Robinson, Catherine, 2022. "Occupational status and life satisfaction in the UK: The miserable middle?," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 204(C), pages 509-527.
    17. Asuyama, Yoko, 2021. "Determinants of job interestingness: Comparison of Japan and other high-income countries," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 73(C).
    18. Sun-Pyo Lee & Kyungji Kim & Sungbum Park, 2023. "Investigating the Market Success of Software-as-a-Service Providers: the Multivariate Latent Growth Curve Model Approach," Information Systems Frontiers, Springer, vol. 25(2), pages 639-658, April.
    19. Min Hua Jen & Ron Johnston & Kelvyn Jones & Richard Harris & Axel Gandy, 2010. "International Variations In Life Expectancy: A Spatio‐Temporal Analysis," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, vol. 101(1), pages 73-90, February.
    20. Kerrissey, Michaela & Novikov, Zhanna & Tietschert, Maike & Phillips, Russell & Singer, Sara J., 2023. "The ambiguity of “we”: Perceptions of teaming in dynamic environments and their implications," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 320(C).

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:eujoag:v:21:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1007_s10433-024-00830-0. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.