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| Career trajectories and older men's retirement | | Author(s) | Mark D Hayward, Samantha Friedman, Hsinmu Chen |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 53B, no 2, March 1998 |
| Pages | pp S91-S103 |
| Keywords | Retirement ; Psychology [retirement] ; Employment ; Job satisfaction ; Older men ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The idea of a long and stable career rewarded by retirement is a fixture of the American social ethos and political economy. The paradox is that many Americans' careers do not fit this image. This research examined how the structure of the career, as compared to only those circumstances proximate to retirement, is important for understanding career endings. Based on labour force histories drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Older Men, the study observed that the occupational roles held through the mid and late career combine additively to influence retirement and disability experiences, with different conditions of work coming into play depending on the career stage. Occupational roles in the mid career also have long-term, indirect effects, operating through the onset of health problems and the adequacy of pension benefits. Although retirement and disability are not hinged to occupational mortality as such, these career endings are sensitive to major discontinuities in the career and work role in terms of unemployment and labour force mobility. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980602411 A |
| Classmark | G3: G7: WJ: WL5: BC: 7T |
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