{"id":2529,"date":"2024-01-29T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T07:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investmentsgroup.net\/i-polacchi-ultracinquantenni-vogliono-aprire-unattivita-in-proprio\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T12:22:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T11:22:04","slug":"poles-over-the-age-of-fifty-want-to-open-their-own-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmentsgroup.net\/en\/poles-over-the-age-of-fifty-want-to-open-their-own-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Poles over the age of fifty want to open their own business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>35,000 \u2013 that&#8217;s roughly the number of sole proprietorships set up last year by people over the age of 50. That&#8217;s 12% of all newly registered companies. The professional activity of Poles in the pre-retirement period is prolonged. This is optimistic, especially in the context of demographic change and an ageing population.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the authors, around 23% of professionally active people over the age of 50 run a business in Poland. It is worth noting that the average in the European Union is 18%.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the share of self-employed people increases with age, up to 44% in the 75+ group, where active professionals are mainly self-employed. At the same time, Polish self-employed people 50+ are less likely to hire employees than citizens of other EU countries. In Poland, one in five people over the age of 50 running a business has employees and, on average, in the EU, one in three.<\/p>\n<p>Men predominate among people 50+ who start a business, but more people of retirement age register more entities.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, in 2017, nearly 41.2% of women between the ages of 55 and 59 believed that employers expected them to retire and stop working when they reached retirement age. In 2022, only 21.8% of women in this age group felt this way. In 2017, 31.6% of respondents of pre-retirement age said they wanted to earn extra money in retirement, in 2022 it was already 39%<\/p>\n<p>Source: PARP publications<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>35,000 \u2013 that&#8217;s roughly the number of sole proprietorships set up last year by people over the age of 50. That&#8217;s 12% of all newly registered companies. The professional activity of Poles in the pre-retirement period is prolonged. This is optimistic, especially in the context of demographic change and an ageing population. According to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentsgroup.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentsgroup.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentsgroup.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentsgroup.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentsgroup.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentsgroup.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2531,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentsgroup.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions\/2531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentsgroup.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentsgroup.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentsgroup.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentsgroup.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}