Editorial: Current and future challenges for a long and healthy working life

"It is largely unknown whether and to what extent older workers are particularly affected by the organizational changes in working life. ... Here, risks and challenges are not distributed equally across the older work force. Some persons are especially affected by particular workloads and leave the labour market relatively young. Others want to participate in the labour market even after the statutory retirement age, or need to continue working, e.g. for financial reasons. Against this background the workshop 'Ageing in labour participation. Current and future challenges for a long working life' discussed different challenges older individuals face on the labour market as well as particular approaches to increase labour market participation of older workers. The workshop took place in Nuremberg in October 2012 and was hosted by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and the lidA study group. The lidA study group, a cooperation between the Universities of Wuppertal, Ulm and Magdeburg, the IAB, the Institute for Applied Social Sciences (infas) and the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA) set up the 'lidA Cohort Study - German Cohort Study on Work, Age, Health and Work Participation' to investigate the effects of work and work context on the physical and psychological health of the ageing workforce in Germany. The articles in this special issue combine a sample of papers presenting results gained from the lidA study and papers presented at the workshop." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))