default retirement age. Design/methodology/approach – A human capital and labour market perspective provide theoretical lenses …/value – The paper offers areas where lessons about age management can be learnt from other experiences of flexible retirement …

about their planned age of retirement. Design/methodology/approach Different theoretical approaches on the decision to … early retirement. Originality/value The analysis conceptually associates two key features of modern labour markets … (precariousness and retirement) and empirically provides some evidence of the effect of poor employment conditions on the decision to …

Purpose – Various studies have shown that nearly three‐quarters of older people living within retirement housing are …/methodology/approach – A sample of about 200 respondents was selected from all purchasers of retirement housing in the West Midlands region of …

Purpose – This paper examines the decision‐making process of retirement housing purchasers and seeks to determine its … about 200 respondents was selected from all purchasers of retirement housing in the West Midlands region of England. Semi …‐structured interviews were undertaken with 20 respondents. Findings – The findings demonstrate that the majority of retirement housing …

examine the attitudes of retirement housing purchasers to tenure, the effect of culture on these attitudes, and contrast some … of about 200 respondents was selected from all purchasers of retirement housing in the West Midlands region of the UK …. Findings – The findings in this paper demonstrate that culture is an important factor affecting retirement housing purchasers …

Older consumers, that is, those people nearing or at retirement age, are increasingly being recognised as an important …

be unnoticed. These women often find, on approaching retirement, that they are side‐lined into “caring” roles, usually …

of the drop has been because of early retirement. Governments have encouraged early retirement programmes as a way of … used early retirement to reduce the size of the workforce. Early retirement allows the number of workers to be cut without …’s decision to take early retirement? How should companies construct schemes to encourage targeted workers to sign up and leave?  …

retirement? We analyse European data on retirees from the SHARE panel, and show that the well-being of the retired continues to …