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| Predictors of perceptions of involuntary retirement | | Author(s) | Maximiliane E Szinovacz, Adam Davey |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 45, no 1, February 2005 |
| Pages | pp 36-47 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Employment of older people ; Attitudes to retirement ; Retirement reasons ; Retirement policy ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Retirement is often treated as a voluntary transaction, yet selected circumstances can restrict choice in retirement decision processes. The authors investigated conditions under which retirees perceive their retirement as "forced" rather than "wanted". Analysis relied on Waves 1-4 (1992, 1994, 1996 and 1998) of the US Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), a sample finally comprising 572 men and 588 women. Logistic regression models estimated the effects of background factors, choice and restricted choice conditions, and retirement contexts on perceptions of forced retirement. Nearly one third of older workers perceived their retirement as forced. Such forced retirement reflects restricted choice through health limitations, job displacement and care obligations. Other predictors include marital status, race, assets, benefits, job tenure and off-time retirement. Future research should establish personal and policy implications of forced retirement. Schemes are required to help older workers who have been forced into early retirement to find alternative employment opportunities and to reduce the conditions leading to forced retirement. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050419202 A |
| Classmark | GC: G7:DP: G4: G5: 3J: 7T |
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