Extension of working life in relation to the demographic development belongs to the mostimport issues the European nations face today. The objective of this paper, which is basedupon work from ISCH COST Action IS1409 Gender and health impacts of policies extendingworking life in western countries, supported by COST (European Cooperation in Scienceand Technology), is to analyse individual psychological factors of late workers influencingtheir preference to leave the labour market. The research sample is based on the data ofthe Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (wave 6), using the variables ofdata package Employment-Pension (containing data on self-reported aspect of work per-ception as job satisfaction, recognition for work, health limits, etc.) for the group of eco-nomically active persons. The research focuses on 2 countries: Sweden (N=942) andCzech Republic (N=880) as these countries are symbolically located in geographically dis-tant and culturally different areas of the EU, however, being similar in terms of the popu-lation size. The combination of non-parametric statistical tests and logit models is usedfor each nation, using the variables for the gender differences. The results show that Swe-den exhibits only moderate gender differences as regards the subjective work perceptionsin relation to the extension of working life. Late workers in the Czech Republic exhibit arelatively wide spectrum of factors influencing the extension of working life. The results bring suggestions on the existence of cross-cultural differences as well as information forthe EU policy-makers within the framework of labour market and working life extension.