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| A multilevel model of early retirement decisions among autoworkers in plants with different futures | | Author(s) | Melissa A Hardy, Lawrence Hazelrigg |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 21, no 2 (special issue: Multilevel models), March 1999 |
| Pages | pp 275-303 |
| Keywords | Early retirement ; Road vehicle engineering ; Employees ; Attitudes to retirement ; Conditions of employment ; Mathematical models ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Of car workers at the General Motors (GM) - United Auto Workers (UAW) who were eligible for early retirement during 1986-1989, about 17% elected to, and were defined by the usual expectations such as age, physical health, and pension wealth. However, some were employed in plants that GM had decided to abandon. Did the difference in organisational context make a difference in individual workers' decisions about early retirement? Would workers who chose to take early retirement and who were employed in plants scheduled for closure have made the same decision had their plants not been selected for closure? If the rate of early retirement was higher in plants scheduled to close, and it was, how did that difference relate to the process by which individual workers reached their decisions? These questions are answered by use of multilevel analysis of data from a sample of GM's workers. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990318206 A |
| Classmark | G5M: YAH: WK: G7:DP: WKA: 3LM: 7T |
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