摘要：The Lithuanian population is aging, and it causes many difficulties for public finances by increasingexpenditures on health care, long-term care, and pensions, and also for the labor market by creating laborshortages. One of the ways to cope with demographic aging is to rise the employment rate of older people.According to Eurostat, the employment rate of the elderly aged 55–64 years increased from 49.6 percent in2005 to 68.5 percent in 2018 in Lithuania and it is higher than the average employment rate of older workersin European Union, which was 58.7 percent in 2018. This paper focuses on older people in Lithuania, aged 55and over, trying to answer a question whether the elderly in Lithuania willingly work or try to find alternativessuch as receiving long-term social insurance benefits. The research findings show that the activity of olderpeople in the labor market grows, and even the share of people with disabilities staying in the labor marketincreases. However, this analysis also shows that older people are more under risk to lose their job during aneconomic crisis, and this suggests that trying to find work alternatives can be closely related to one’s economicsituation. Moreover, health problems remain one of the main factors limiting the activity of older people in thelabor market. It is also noticeable that some labor force reserves exist among people with disabilities and thissupposes that creating better adapted working conditions for older and disabled workers in Lithuania couldprobably contribute to meeting the needs of an aging workforce.
关键词：older people; employment; elderly; early retirement benefit; disability pension
