Although there have been many reviews of the retirement literature in recent years, the issue
of retirement timing has received less attention, neglecting some large and important issues …

Purpose: Retirement is often treated as a voluntary transition, yet selected circumstances
can restrict choice in retirement decision processes. We investigated conditions under which …

In recent decades, social work and other social science research disciplines have become
increasingly reliant on large secondary data sets, which have increased in both number and …

This paper analyzes a puzzling aspect of retirement behavior known as “unretirement.”
Nearly 50 percent of retirees follow a nontraditional retirement path that involves partial …

The present article organizes prominent theories about retirement decision making around
three different types of thinking about retirement: imagining the possibility of retirement …

Against a global backdrop of population and workforce ageing, successive UK governments
have encouraged people to work longer and delay retirement. Debates focus mainly on …

In this chapter, we review the evidence on retirement and study the role of incentives in the
retirement decision. The key patterns of withdrawal from the labor market are presented and …

The typical family in the US is now a dual-earner couple, yet relatively few studies examine
the retirement decision in a household context. This paper explores how husbands' and …

Discusses the effects of gender differences on the life course. Gendered processes are
described and discussed in terms of biographical paths and pacing, social relations, turning …

Daily headlines warn American workers that their retirement years may be far from golden.
The main components of the retirement income system—Social Security and employer …