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Who expects to continue working after age 62?
— the retirement plans of couples | | Author(s) | Amy Mehraban Pienta, Mark D Hayward |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 57B, no 4, July 2002 |
| Pages | pp S199-S208 |
| Keywords | Spouses ; Employment of older people ; Living patterns ; Retirement age ; Preparation [retirement] ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The individual, spousal and household characteristics associated with husbands' and wives' retirement expectations are examined. Using data from the 1992 US Health and Retirement Study (HRS), subjective probabilities of working full-time after reaching age 62 are used as a measure of retirement expectation. Within a marriage, retirement expectations are shaped by individual, spousal and household characteristics. The authors observe some gender differences in cross-spousal influence with wives' retirement expectations being more influenced by husbands' resources and constraints than vice versa. Nonetheless, individual and household factors associated with retirement expectation are widely shared by husbands and wives. Findings support that there is considerable overlap in retirement planning of husbands and wives during early parts of the retirement decision-making process. However, inequity in cross-spousal influences is a defining characteristic of retirement decision-making. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020904204 A |
| Classmark | SN: GC: K7: G5A: GA: 3F: 7T |
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