I want to go, but I don't know what to do: retirement of university professors and researchers in Mexico

Abstract

In Mexico, the increase in life expectancy has brought changes in the population structure. Studies and sociodemographic profiles of the National Population Council (CONAPO) and the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) report that by 2020, 12% of the population aged 60 to + years represent 32.6% of the economically active population from the country. According to the National Occupation and Employment Survey (ENOE), for the fourth quarter of 2019, 17% of academics who teach at universities are between 60 and over years of age. Recognizing these data, the question arises: What motivates university academics not to retire? In the present work a documentary analysis is made that identifies, on the one hand, national public policies; and on the other, the regulations and retirement programs of higher-level educational institutions that have greater representation in Mexico, in order to determine the factors that intervene in the decision-making of university academics (older people) to continue in the labor field of teaching and research.