Re-employment Willingness in Later Life: A Moderated Mediation Model of Employment Guidance in Taiwan

Cheng-Wen Lee, Yuan-Chao Chi and Aileen Rachelle Aurelio Rabago

Advances in Management and Applied Economics, 2026, vol. 16, issue 2, 2

Abstract: Abstract Amid rapid population aging, re-integrating unemployed middle-aged and elderly individuals into the labor force has become a strategic priority for Taiwan’s socioeconomic sustainability. While employment guidance measures—such as counseling and career support—are widely deployed, their psychological mechanisms and contextual contingencies remain underexplored. Grounded in social-emotional selectivity and human capital theories, this study investigates how employment counseling and guidance influence re-employment willingness through the mediating role of future career opportunities, and how this process is moderated by personal traits (e.g., self-efficacy, resilience) and the socio-economic environment. Using PLS-SEM on survey data from 409 unemployed individuals aged 45+ in Taoyuan City, we find that: (1) both counseling (B = 0.21, p JEL classification numbers: J26, J64, I38.

Keywords: Re-employment willingness; Employment guidance; Future career opportunities; Personal traits; Socio-economic environment. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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