The proportion of individuals extending their working lives beyond full pension age (FPA) has increased considerably over the last twenty years worldwide. Most research on the extension of working lives has examined what determines whether older people remain attached to the labor market, neglecting the diversity of their labor force statuses. Also, what we know from this line of inquiry is derived almost exclusively from developed countries, leaving other regions, such as Latin America, unexplored. Based on a life-course approach, we close these research gaps by analyzing how types of lifetime employment and coresidential trajectories determine both the extension of working lives beyond FPA and the diverse labor force statuses of older workers in Chile. We draw on a rich and comprehensive life history dataset of a cohort of Chileans currently aged 65–75 and use longitudinal and cross-sectional statistical methods. Our results indicate that individuals who followed diverse employment trajectories throughout their lives (whether in formal or informal jobs) but permanently coresided with a partner and adult children were most likely to be partly retired in old age (i.e., working while receiving a pension). Those who followed more informal employment trajectories while living permanently with a partner were more likely to remain active, particularly through self-employment, beyond FPA. We stress the importance for future labor policies aimed at older populations to consider the diversity of life-course trajectories in the employment and family domains.

在过去的二十年中，全世界超过退休金年龄（FPA）的人的工作寿命大大增加了。关于延长工作寿命的大多数研究都研究了什么因素决定了老年人是否仍然对劳动力市场保持依恋，而忽视了其劳动力身份的多样性。而且，我们从这方面的调查中知道的几乎都是来自发达国家，而拉丁美洲等其他地区则尚未开发。基于生命过程的方法，我们通过分析终身就业的类型和共同居住的轨迹如何确定超过FPA的工作寿命的延长以及智利老年工人的不同劳动力状况，来弥合这些研究差距。我们利用了一组目前年龄在65-75岁之间的智利人丰富而全面的生活史数据集，并使用纵向和横向统计方法。我们的结果表明，一生遵循各种就业轨迹（无论是正式工作还是非正式工作）但长期与伴侣和成年子女在一起生活的个人很可能部分退休（即在领取养老金的同时工作）。那些在与伴侣永久生活的同时遵循更多非正式就业轨迹的人更有可能保持活跃，特别是通过自雇，而不是通过FPA。我们强调未来针对老年人口的劳动政策的重要性，以考虑就业和家庭领域中生活路线的多样性。