Frontiers of Research on Work and Retirement
Open Access
- 14 December 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
- Vol. 65B (1), 69-80
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbp109
Abstract
The shifting boundary between work and retirement and the always-emergent features of retirement practice create a wide opportunity for scholarship and research. After an overview of the scope of retirement research, this article articulates 4 areas that deserve special attention in the present historical circumstance: studies of the form and timing of retirement exits, the labor market for older workers, the quality of pensions, and the experience of retired life. The field should be wary of prescribing regimes of behavior for late careers and retirement that many people are unsuited to fulfill.Keywords
This publication has 26 references indexed in Scilit:
- Vern L. Bengtson, Daphna Gans, Norella M. Putney and Merril Silverstein (eds), Handbook of Theories of Aging, second edition, Springer Publishing Company, New York, 2009, 800 pp., hbk US $90.00, ISBN 13: 978 0 8261 6251 9.Ageing and Society, 2009
- Editing in the Rearview MirrorThe Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 2009
- What Is Retirement? A Review and Assessment of Alternative Concepts and MeasuresCanadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement, 2009
- Women's Retirement Expectations: How Stable Are They?The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 2009
- Rethinking risk in the new economy: Age and cohort effects on unemployment and re-employmentHuman Relations, 2008
- Age Discrimination, Social Closure and EmploymentSocial Forces, 2007
- Why Do Boomers Plan to Work Longer?The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 2007
- Heuristics and Biases in Retirement Savings BehaviorJournal of Economic Perspectives, 2007
- Searching for the Inverted U-Shaped Relationship Between Time and Performance: Meta-Analyses of the Experience/Performance, Tenure/Performance, and Age/Performance RelationshipsJournal of Management, 2003
- A Continuity Theory of Normal AgingThe Gerontologist, 1989