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The effects of pre-retirement factors and retirement route on circumstances in retirement
— findings from the Whitehall II study | | Author(s) | Martin Hyde, Jane Ferrie, Paul Higgs |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 24, part 2, March 2004 |
| Pages | pp 279-296 |
| Source | http://journals.cambridge.org/ |
| Keywords | Civil servants ; Preparation [retirement] ; Retirement ; Economic status [elderly] ; Health [elderly] ; Quality of life ; Longitudinal surveys. |
| Annotation | Retirement has been depicted as mandatory expulsion from the workforce, and as the transition to a period of ill health and poverty, but such ideas are being challenged. People in the UK as elsewhere are living longer and healthier lives, and many older people have access to non-state incomes that afford them a reasonable standard of living in retirement. However, there is still concern that inequalities persist in to old age. Data from two waves of the British Whitehall II study have been used to assess the relative effects of occupational grade, psychological and general health during working life, and retirement patterns or pathways on activities, attitudes to health and income in retirement. The results show that the majority of the sample reported good health, financial security and overall satisfaction with life, but with observable inequalities. Regression analyses demonstrate that pre-retirement circumstances generally had a greater effect on late life than the retirement route or pathway. Retirement no longer represents a drastic break between working and post-work life. Rather, the results suggest continuities between the two periods. It is concluded that the main causes of inequalities in retirement are work-based rather than in retirement itself. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040317207 A |
| Classmark | XM8: GA: G3: F:W: CC: F:59: 3J |
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