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Retirement intentions and spousal support
— a multi-actor approach | | Author(s) | Kčne Henkens |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 54B, no 2, March 1999 |
| Pages | pp S63-S73 |
| Keywords | Early retirement ; Attitudes to retirement ; Employees ; Spouses ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | This study investigates a partner's role in the retirement decision-making process. It determines the extent to which a partner's support and intentions regarding early retirement influence one other, and which partner dominates. Data have been collected directly from 1,025 older employees working in Dutch industry and trade, and from their spouses. Because it is conceptualised that husbands' and wives' retirement intentions/ support are related in a reciprocal way, a two-stage least squares regression analysis (2SLS) is used to establish the specified mutual relationships. Intentions and support of both partners concerning retirement are strongly related. Results of the 2SLS suggest that early retirement of one of the spouses is the result of influence processes within the household, and that early retirement can be considered, to a certain extent, a household decision. This holds for married men's early retirement in particular. There seems to be no direct causal relationship between a couple's own decision making with respect to early retirement and a couple's social network retirement behaviour. Future research on the retirement decision-making process should focus on the family unit rather than on individual workers. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990430007 A |
| Classmark | G5M: G7:DP: WK: SN: 76H |
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