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Influences of family obligations and relationships on retirement
— variations by gender, race and marital status | | Author(s) | Maximiliane E Szinovacz, Stanley DeViney, Adam Davey |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 56B, no 1, January 2001 |
| Pages | pp S20-S27 |
| Keywords | Family care ; Family relationships ; Retirement ; Ethnic groups ; Marital status ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This investigation of economic and care obligations and retirement used data for 897 people who were in employment at baseline, and aged 55 to 75 at follow-up from the US National Survey of Families and Households. It found that economic kin obligations impeded the likelihood of retirement. Those who made financial contributions to children outside the household and White women with resident children in the household were less likely to retire. For Blacks, household composition effects were more complex, and seemed to depend on the mix of care and financial obligations, and financial contributions by resident kin. Kin salience also impinged on retirement decisions: While some groups who lacked family ties (e.g. unmarried childless men) were less inclined to retire, other sub-groups (e.g. unmarried men with monthly pre-retirement contacts with children) were more likely to retire. Models of retirement should pay greater attention to the interdependence of work and family spheres, and to the diversity of retirement processes among various population groups. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010307225 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: DS:SJ: G3: TK: SLM: 3F: 7T |
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