Purpose – The purpose of this overview is to provide a brief introduction to the topic of retirement, noting five key … changing nature of retirement; the need for an interdisciplinary perspective on retirement; the need to look at both individual … retirement. In addition, a wide variety of disciplinary approaches and levels of analyses and perspectives are employed across …

on the job, anticipation of lost social integration upon retirement) related to three types of retirement intention (i ….e. full retirement, part‐time retirement, job mobility). Design/methodology/approach – A representative sample of 196 workers … positively to full retirement intention and negatively to job mobility; development opportunity on the job was negatively related …

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to use the theory of planned behavior to test a structural model of retirement … timing intentions of older workers in Canada following the abolishment of mandatory retirement. Design …/methodology/approach – A survey of 281 working individuals was conducted in order to test a model of retirement timing. Findings – The model …

Purpose – The central theme of this article is early retirement intentions and burnout among older workers. The paper … retirement intentions. Design/methodology/approach – The data were taken from a survey held among Dutch older workers (50+) and … three dimensions. The results show that besides the effect of burnout, retirement intentions are related to the level of …

Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data set in the USA were used to examine the influence of demographic (e.g. income … well as the nonwork related factors of certainty of retirement plans, attitudes toward retirement, and job seeking self …‐efficacy all distinguished the various employment statuses (e.g. completely retired, partly retirement, and not retired at all) of …

Purpose – This paper aims to look at model retirement behavior with a focus on early retirement where there is an … option for “buy‐outs”. An employer can offer employees generous pension programs if the employees agree on early retirement … in a retirement decision are likely to be biased upward. Design/methodology/approach – The authors propose an estimation …

Purpose – This paper aims to examine whether employers' opinions and expectations regarding workers' retirement age are … postpone the transition from paid work into retirement at the end of the labour market career. Design/methodology/approach – A … Kingdom. Findings – The authors found that most employers are reluctant in supporting later retirement. Part of this …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of self‐assessed health on retirement plans of older … retirement intentions using simultaneous, recursive models that account for the fact that subjective health is potentially … subjective health outcomes have little influence on retirement plans. Practical implications – Since subjective health outcomes …

– Specific questions will be more acute with the effective postponement of retirement: increasing inequalities between groups of … older workers, increasing uncertainty about the age of retirement, the way to keep lower educated workers in their jobs …

maximum when employers or large shares of employees are reaching retirement age. Estimates suggest that a ten percent increase … in the share of employees who will be of retirement age in the future increases future annual closure probability by … closure probabilities as the result of the retirement decisions of individuals. However, this interpretation of the results …