Albania

This chapter analyses the most important policies influencing the gender and healthHealth implicationsHealth implications of the extension of working lifeWorking life in AlbaniaAlbania post 2000. Parametric reformsParametric reforms of social insurance will gradually increase and equalise retirement agesRetirement age(s) for menMen and women to 67 years by 2056, and extend the insurance period to 40 years by 2032. During the period 1993–2016, the average real retirement ageRetirement age(s) has increased from 53.2 to 63.2 years old. People have the right to receive the pension and continue working and paying contributions, but if they postpone receiving pensions after retirement ageRetirement age(s) , the pension amount increases by 0.5% each month; in the case ofRetirement early early retirementEarly retirement , the pension amount reduces by 0.6% each month. New types of private sectorPrivate sector employment—part-time, self-employmentSelf- employment , family businessesFamily business(es) , remote workingRemote working —have opened opportunities to extend working lifeWorking life beyond retirement ageRetirement age(s) . However, high levels of unemployment, informal workInformal work , lack of adequate skillsLack of adequate skills , and insufficient publicServices servicesPublic services create difficulties, especially for women, to extend working lifeWorking life . To fully address the complexity of extending working lives, an integrated approachIntegrated approach education should involve all relevant policy areas including education, healthHealth , employment and social protectionSocial protection , as well as engaging stakeholdersStakeholders , public authoritiesPublic authorities , businesses and civil society.