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The normative anticipation of retirement by older workers
Author(s)	David J Ekerdt, Karl Kosloski, Stanley Deviney
Journal title	Research on Aging, vol 22, no 1, January 2000
Pages	pp 3-22
Keywords	Preparation [retirement] ; Psychology [retirement] ; Employment of older people ; United States of America.
Annotation	The scope of explanation for retirement behaviour could be greatly enlarged by acknowledging workers' extended engagement with the question before the event, and their course of action toward it. This study provides evidence for such extended involvement among workers aged 51 to 61 in the 1992 Health and Retirement Study (HRS) who saw themselves being within 15 years of retiring. To the extent that workers foresaw less time left at work, they reported more frequent thinking and talking about retirement. This pattern was quite general. The consideration given to retirement was, as expected, more frequent in circumstances that might orient workers toward the future. However, even absent these circumstances, subjective proximity still predicted the topicality of retirement. Widely held, albeit individual, timetables for retirement demonstrate its embeddedness in the subjective life course of older workers. (AKM).
Accession Number	CPA-000221206 A
Classmark	GA: G7: GC: 7T
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