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Bridge jobs
— a comparison across continents |
| Author(s) | Michael D Giandria, Kevin E Cahill, Joseph F Quinn |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 31, no 5, September 2009 |
| Pages | pp 549-576 |
| Keywords | Employment of older people ; Adjustment ; Retirement ; Phased retirement ; Labour economics ; Comparison ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Are today's retirees following in the footsteps of their older peers with respect to gradual retirement? Recent evidence from the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS) suggests that most older Americans with full-time career jobs late in life moved to other jobs prior to complete labour force withdrawal. The authors explored the retirement patterns of two cohorts of individuals from the HRS. One group (the war babies) was born between 1942 and 1947 and therefore aged 59-64 at the time of their fifth HRS biennial interviews in 2006/ The others (the original HRS respondents) were aged 59-64 in 2000 and therefore 6 years older. The war babies have followed the gradual retirement trends of their predecessors. Traditional one-step retirement appears to be fading as the effects of changes in the retirement environment continue to unfold. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100907003 A |
| Classmark | GC: DR: G3: G5N: WH: 48: 7T |
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