Welsh, JenniferStrazdins, LyndallCharlesworth, SaraKulik, CarolD'Este, Catherine2019-10-02Jennifer Welsh, Lyndall Strazdins, Sara Charlesworth, Carol T Kulik & Catherine D’Este (2018) Losing the workers who need employment the most: how health and job quality affect involuntary retirement, Labour & Industry: a journal of the social and economic relations of work, 28:4, 261-278, DOI: 10.1080/10301763.2018.15226091030-1763http://hdl.handle.net/1885/173075Governments are encouraging workers to remain in employment beyond traditional retirement age. A tangible expression of this in Australia is the move to raise the Aged Pension access age from 65 to 67 by 2023. This policy assumes that the majority of workers will be able to extend their working lives. However, even at the age of 65, one-third of older workers have left their jobs involuntarily, with poor health an important reason for exit. Yet the significance of worker health for maintaining or limiting employment is not reflected in current policy architecture.This paper is supported by an Australian Research Council Linkage Project LP 130100227, which is led by Barbara Pocock, Carol T Kulik, Sara Charlesworth, and Lyndall Strazdins, in partnership with Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency and Women in Super. Lyndall Strazdins and Sara Charlesworth are supported by Australian Research Council Future Fellowships FT110100686 and FT120100346 respectively.application/pdfen-AU© 2018 AIRAANZExtended employmentolder workersinvoluntary retirementworker healthjob quality2018-12-1110.1080/10301763.2018.15226092023-11-26