Secondary Professional Activity in the Labour Market Pensioners

Abstract

A pension is a benefit of cash character, which aim is to secure the material existence in the period, in which an individual, regarding to age is not able to perform work. In order to gain the entitlement, one should meet defined conditions, having met which the choice of the moment of retirement is made by the entitled person. A person at retirement age may fully spend their time resting resigning from professional activity, may also continue work, postponing retirement or combine receiving benefits with professional work. The aim of the paper is to analyse the occurrence of secondary professional activity as well as factors determining the undertaking of employment in the period of receiving benefit. The conducted research shows that the responders relatively earlier exercised their right to a pension and average age of responders’ retirement amounted to 59 years. However, gaining entitlement to a pension did not caused responders’ withdrawal from the labour market and over half of them combined receiving benefits with professional work. The undertaking of the professional activity was conditioned by responders’ financial situation.