STREAM Newsletter 7

STREAM will continue with four more measurements between 2015 and 2018! Initially, four measurements between 2010 and 2013 were planned. However, in the autumn of 2015 the first of four new waves will start. In this new wave, we will welcome 5,400 new participants, mainly in the age group 45-49 as well as the loyal participants of the previous waves. More details will follow in the next newsletter. In 2015 we also started two new PhD-projects, one about productive roles in society besides work, such as informal care, and one about multiple job holding.

Dynamics in the working lives of older adults and participation in other productive roles
Vesela Petricheva is one of our two new PhD students. The aim of her project is to gain more insight into the main patterns of work among persons aged 45-69 years, the relation between these patterns and participation in other productive roles such as informal care and voluntary work, and the implications of these patterns for health and well-being. She will use the STREAM data to examine to what extent older adults in working age participate in work and other productive roles and how these patterns can be explained. She will also study how dynamics in work and other productive roles influence health and well-being.

Determinants and effects of multiple job holding
Stef Bouwhuis is our other new PhD student. His project aims to increase our understanding of transitions to multiple job holding among older workers. The focus will be on determinants of transitions to multiple job holding and the effect of these transitions on health and retirement. Using the STREAM data, he will examine the extent to which work characteristics, work history, personal and family characteristics, skills, health, financial factors, work motivation and work ability predict transitions to multiple job holding. Also, he will examine to what extent and how multiple job holding affects health and retirement.

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