The analysis of 2005-06 Slovenian labour force surveys shows that old workers are primarily engaged in the informal sector. As for retirement pathways, the analysis shows that regular workers start leaving their workplaces upon reaching age of 60 (women a years earlier) and remain employed at most up to the age of 65, exiting directly to retirement and not engaging in transitional employment.
COBISS.SI-ID: 000000
Education is often understood as a factor affecting individual's life quality. This has also been widely recognised within social policies facing the challenges of ageing societies and embodied within the concept of lifelong learning. In reality third age population is often being excluded from this vision, because the lifelong learning agenda is dominated by economic and vocational concerns of labour market. Such reduction of lifelong learning to lifelong education proves to be insufficient when dealing with issues of how to improve quality of life in later life periods.
COBISS.SI-ID: 000000