Konrad Turek

• PhD in Sociology
• Professor (Assistant) at Tilburg University

Background and objectives: Longitudinal perspectives on how organizations react to workforce aging are missing in the literature. In this study, we fill this gap and ask how organizations deal with older workers, how their approaches change over time, and in which sectors of the economy and types of organizations the changes were most profound. R...

Investments in lifelong learning may create unsatisfactory results, and this could potentially contribute to the reproduction of inequalities. We argue that the process is related to the accumulation of opportunities and barriers for participation in training, which can lock individuals in disadvantageous path-dependent trajectories. We take a long...

The Comparative Panel File (CPF) harmonizes the world’s largest and longest-running household panel surveys from seven countries: Australia (HILDA), Germany (SOEP), United Kingdom (BHPS and UKHLS), South Korea (KLIPS), Russia (RLMS), Switzerland (SHP), and the United States (PSID). The project aims to support the social science community in the ana...

Public policies encourage later retirement, but they often do not account for discrepancies in the capacity for extending working lives. This paper studies trends and inequalities in extending working lives between 1990 and 2019 from gender and education perspectives in seven countries (Australia, Germany, Russia, South Korea, Switzerland, United K...

As the workforce ages, organizations are increasing their efforts to retain retirement-eligible workers to avoid human capital shortages and preserve knowledge reservoirs. Nevertheless, the potential factors and underlying mechanisms relating to the retention of retirement-eligible workers have rarely been examined. The current research investigate...

With the growing complexity of knowledge production, social science must accelerate and open up to maintain explanatory power and responsiveness. This goal requires redesigning the front end of the research to build an open and expandable knowledge infrastructure that stimulates broad collaborations, enables breaking down inertia and path dependenc...

Bringing together 150+ scholars and practitioners from 50+ countries, and funded by the European Commission, COST Action LeverAge (https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA22120/) is the first network-building project of its kind in the work and organizational psychology and human resource management (WOP/HRM) aspects of work and aging. Focused on the aging w...

This chapter considers the central role retirement plays in social stratification structures in later life. Retirement transition is embedded in social structures and affects an individual’s post-retirement position. In recent decades, retirement has departed from a traditional model of a clear-cut event and a static life period toward a more varie...

With the growing complexity of knowledge production, social science must accelerate and open up to maintain explanatory power and responsiveness. This requires redesigning the front-end of research to build an open and expandable knowledge infrastructure that stimulates broad collaborations, enables breaking down inertia and path dependencies of co...

>> NOTE: This is an early version. The final version was published here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375791249_Social_Stratification_of_Retirement_Transition (Social Stratification of Retirement Transition, 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197539484.013.27). << Retirement transition plays a key role in social stratification structures in later l...

Pdf available at: https://www.konradturek.com/publications. Abstract: To fully understand the effects of age-related stereotypes in the workplace, we must consider how the various 'shades' of age discrimination develop and affect the behavior of employers and employees in the context of organizational relations. We contribute to the discussion on...

To fully understand the effects of age-related stereotypes in the workplace, we must consider how the various 'shades' of age discrimination develop and affect the behavior of employers and employees in the context of organizational relations. We contribute to the discussion on age-related stereotypes and age discrimination in the workplace initiat...

Public policies encourage later retirement, but they often do not account for discrepancies in the capacity for extending working lives. This paper studies trends and inequalities in extending working lives over the last three decades in a gender-specific and comparative perspective of seven countries (Australia, Germany, Russia, South Korea, Switz...

CPF - Comparative Panel File, code version 1.4 (September 2021) Availible at: www.cpfdata.com CPF provides Stata open-source code to harmonise the world’s major household panel surveys from 7 countries. CPF is designed as an open science platform, integrated with Open Science Framework and GitHub. CPF ver. 1.4 was updated to include the latest...

The Comparative Panel File (CPF) harmonises the world's largest and longest-running household panel surveys from seven countries: Australia (HILDA), Germany (SOEP), Great Britain (BHPS and UKHLS), South Korea (KLIPS), Russia (RLMS), Switzerland (SHP), and the United States (PSID). The project aims to support the social science community in the anal...

The Codebook presents an overview of variables included in the Comparative Panel File (CPF) database in version 1.0. It includes definition, labels and response categories, total frequencies and cross-tabulation by country, additional notes, presentation of original questions and source variables. CPF is an open science project to harmonise the wor...

Ages of labor market exit have increased steadily since the late 1990s in OECD countries, but with continuing population aging, there are calls for further stimulation of labor force participation at older ages. Social scientists have extensively studied causes of variation in retirement timing between individuals and across countries, but have pai...

Studies suggest that organizations across countries are more likely to send older staff members to early retirement than retain them, but there are signals that employers are increasingly showing support for longer working lives. However, a large-scale, longitudinal perspective on how organizations have reacted to demographic challenges is missing...

This article analyses the role of age stereotypes in the employability of older people. Unlike in existing studies, we shift emphasis from a direct consideration of stereotypes, focusing instead on skill requirements during recruitment. Using five waves of an employer survey from Poland, we assess how the likelihood of recruiting people over 50 yea...

As labour markets get older and the supply of the labour force diminishes, companies must adjust their policies to the new reality. In this study, we are ‘mapping’ the entire national economy in terms of age management. We analyse changes in the approach to older workers in Dutch companies using employer surveys conducted in 2009 and 2017. By apply...

Investments in lifelong learning often create unsatisfactory results and contribute to reproduction of inequalities. A lifecourse approach allows the study of accumulation mechanisms and discovering how path dependency in behaviours relates to macrostructural mechanisms. Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)...

This article analyses the role of age stereotypes in the employability of older people. Unlike in extant studies, we shift emphasis from stereotypes to job requirements during recruitment. Using five waves of a large-scale, representative employers' survey from Poland, we analyse how the likelihood of recruiting people who are over 50 years old dep...

The paper concentrates on the problem of age discrimination in the labour market and the way it can be conceptualised and measured in a multi-disciplinary way. The approach proposed here combines two understandings of age discrimination—a sociological and legal one, what allows for a fuller and expanded understanding of ageism in the workplace. At...

Aktywność edukacyjna osób starszych w Polsce — poziom, uwarunkowania i kierunki rozwoju polityki publicznej Streszczenie Uczenie się przez całe życie (LLL), także w wieku przed-i poemerytalnym, będzie odgry-wało coraz istotniejszą rolę w kontekście społecznych, gospodarczych i technologicznych wyzwań najbliższej przyszłości. Problemy te zostały roz...

Identifying mechanisms that generate and sustain health inequalities is a prerequisite for developing effective policy response, but little is known about factors contributing to health inequalities in older populations in post-transitional European countries such as Poland. Demographic aging of all populations requires new and deeper insights. Dat...

Employers are the key actors in defining conditions for retirement, as well as the conditions for continuing the work, however their role is still not well recognised and expressed in theoretically framework. In order to better understand individual retirement and to design a successful ageing policies we should consider the behaviours and attitude...

Pracodawcy odgrywają podstawową rolę w definiowaniu warunków kontynuowania lub opuszczenia pracy w wieku emerytalnym. W artykule został zaprezentowany zarys teoretyczny relacji pomiędzy pracodawcą i pracownikiem. Wiek pracownika ma znaczenie: chociaż nie determinuje on tej relacji, to jest jednym ze wskaźników dla oceny dopasowania i określania ocz...

Employers play a key role in defining the conditions for continuing or leaving the work in retirement age. The article presents theoretical model of relationship between employer and employee. Age of the employee is important: although it does not determine this relationship, it is one of the indicators for assessing the fit to the job and for dete...

Od lat zdecydowana większość dorosłych Polek i Polaków jest bierna edukacyjnie. Wyniki pięciu edycji badania „Bilans kapitału ludzkiego” wskazują, że głównymi powodami tej sytuacji nie są ani koszty szkoleń, ani czas, jaki trzeba na nie poświęcić. Jest to przede wszystkim brak odpowiednich bodźców o charakterze zawodowym. Na rozwój systemu kształce...

In this chapter we focus on the development of intra- and inter-cohort socio-economic inequalities in an ageing society in a period of deep social change. Based on the Polish experience, we trace life course patterns in times of system transition, that change individuals' aspirations, opportunities and behaviours, with an attempt to recognise the m...

Introduction In this chapter, we focus on the development of intra-cohort and inter-cohort socioeconomic inequalities in an ageing society in a period of deep social change. Based on the Polish experience, we trace lifecourse patterns in times of system transition that change individuals’ aspirations, opportunities and behaviours, with an attempt t...

Populations around the globe age. For Western countries, this demographic shift is one of the biggest current challenges, challenging individual life plans, family arrangements, market structures, care provisions, and the financial basis of pension schemes. This volume uses the life-course perspective to investigate causes and effects of population...

This chapter analyses the phenomenon of volunteering in older age in Poland at individual, organisational and public policy level. We focus on its conditions, limitations and the opportunities, presenting also the country-specific tradition of the voluntary activity. The engagement of seniors in the third sector in Poland is among the lowest in Eur...

Introduction After 1989, Poland transitioned from a centrally planned economy (controlled and monitored by the state) to an economy with a substantial share of the private sector, before eventually becoming a member of the European Union (EU) in 2004. In line with other post-Socialist welfare states, Poland aimed its welfare regime system in the di...

‘Active ageing’ has become a key phrase in discourses about challenges and remedies for demographic ageing and the enrolment of older adults into voluntary work is an important dimension of it. The pattern and factors conditioning volunteering among older people has so far been an under-researched topic in Europe and this is the first book to study...

Na podstawie badań ludności zrealizowanych w 2013 roku w ramach IV edycji projektu Bilans Kapitału Ludzkiego Edukacja a rynek pracy – tom II

Na podstawie badań instytucji i firm szkoleniowych, pracodawców i ludności zrealizowanych w 2013 roku w ramach IV edycji projektu Bilans Kapitału Ludzkiego Edukacja a rynek pracy – tom V

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Purpose - The purpose of this empirical paper is to investigate the employers' perception of productivity of older workers in Poland with comparison to the younger ones. The paper examines whether various factors including employee's skills and company policies play a role. The findings were compared with situation in the Netherlands, discussing th...

Perek-Białas J, Turek K. Organisation-level policy towards older workers in Poland This article presents the results of studies on organisation-level strategies towards older workers in Poland. The analyses were based on a national and representative sample survey of 1,037 companies (public and private sectors) – the first of its kind in Poland. Th...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to shed light on organizational perceptions of the advantages and disadvantages of engaging older volunteers, and on how they might best capitalize on the availability of older volunteers in different countries and sectors. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws from 74 case studies of voluntary organizati...

The paper addresses the question about possibilities for investigating human decisions and behaviors, and in these context analyses the quasi-experimental question form (QEQ)– an empirical approach of Henrik Kreutz. It begins with a reflection about the nature of action and problems stated by Kreutz already 40 years ago. Next, an attempt of summari...

Esej nagrodzony w 2007 r. w konkursie na najlepszą pracę akademicką o podsumowującą 50 lat integracji europejskiej zorganizowanym przez Instytutu Studiów Strategicznych w Krakowie