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Working after state pension age: qualitative research
— a report of research carried out by the Policy Studies Institute on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions | | Author(s) | Helen Barnes, Jane Parry, Rebecca Taylor |
| Corporate Author | Policy Studies Institute - PSI; Department for Work and Pensions - DWP |
| Publisher | Corporate Document Services, Leeds, 2004 |
| Pages | 81 pp (Department for Work and Pensions Research report, no 208) (Age positive) |
| Source | Corporate Document Services, 7 Eastgate, Leeds, LS2 7TY. Orderline tel: 0113 399 4040; e-mail: orderline@cds.co.uk Summary available from website: http://www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/ |
| Keywords | Employment of older people ; Labour economics ; Retirement age ; Pensions ; Cross sectional surveys ; Qualitative Studies. |
| Annotation | Although rates of employment among older people (age 50+) have been in long-term decline, they have risen faster than for those of working age as a whole since the late 1990s. This qualitative report takes up some of the critical issues raised by Deborah Smeaton and Stephen McKay during the project's quantitative phase (2003). The present research consisted of in-depth interviews with 24 older people, followed by 5 small discussion groups (14 people) conducted in three contrasting locations in the UK. The report covers: work histories, careers and orientations to work; financial planning and incomes in retirement; and decision-making around the State Pension Age (SPA), including reasons for continuing or not continuing to work after SPA. The report highlights the diversity and complexity of people's experiences, in which light, policy implications are considered. The report demonstrates that people who continue (or plan to return) to participate in paid work after SPA do so for a variety of reasons, and that their working patterns are distinctive in important ways. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040519002 B |
| Classmark | GC: WH: G5A: JJ: 3KB: 3DP |
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