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| How the lifecycle hypothesis explains volunteering during retirement | | Author(s) | Arie Sherman, Tal Shavit |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 32, part 8, November 2012 |
| Pages | pp 1360-1381 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Retired persons ; Voluntary work [elderly] ; Life span ; Theory. |
| Annotation | In this article the authors suggest two supplements to a lifecycle model in order to explain why people who have retired from paid work choose either to start volunteering or increase the amount of time they devote to volunteer work. First, total consumption consists of both the material and immaterial products of work. While people can save their income in order to maintain an even level of material consumption, they are unable to save a portion of the immaterial product. Second, at the statutory retirement age people retire only from paid work. It is argued that older people substitute paid work for volunteering due to their inherent need to maintain immaterial consumption during retirement. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-121102005 A |
| Classmark | BB6: GHH: BG6: 4D |
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