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| Gender and relationship status interaction and likelihood of return to work post-retirement |
| Author(s) | Jason Settels, Julie McMullin |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 36, no 3, September 2017 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, September 2017 |
| Pages | pp 366-385 |
| Source | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0714980817000204 |
| Keywords | Retirement ; Retired persons ; Employment of older people ; Older men ; Older women ; Personal relationships ; Married persons ; Single persons ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Population ageing is an issue of mounting importance throughout the industrialised world. Concerns over labour force shortages have led to policies that prolong working life. Accordingly present-day workforce participation patterns of older individuals are extensively varied. This study utilised the 2007 General Social Survey to examine factors associated with post-retirement paid work, focusing on the interaction between gender and relationship status, among Canadians aged 50 to 74 who had retired at least once. The study found that while being in a relationship was associated with a higher likelihood of post-retirement work for men, the opposite was true for women. These findings suggest that the gendered association between relationship status and post-retirement work results partly from the gendered associations between relationship status and one's motivation for learning and community involvement, career orientation and sense of independence. Gendered meanings of relationship status are thus revealed through analysis of post-retirement work. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-171006228 A |
| Classmark | G3: BB6: GC: BC: BD: DS: SLP: SQ: 7S |
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