Decision-Making on Retirement Timing

Szinovacz, Maximiliane E.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-3516-3_12

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“…Men appear to benefit more than women from having a partner relationship (Gove & Shin, 1989;Peters & Liefbroer, 1997), men adapt less easily to the loss of a partner (Arber & Ginn, 1991), and having a partner enhances life satisfaction in retirement much more for men than for women (Calasanti, 1996). Men also score significantly lower than women on retirement adjustment if their spouses are employed (Szinovacz, 1989). The adjustment of women to retirement may therefore be less dependent on their partners' support and behavior than men, who are generally more socially isolated (Slevin & Wingrove, 1995 Figure 2: a < c).…”

Section: H2b Wives' Support For Their Husbands' Early Retirement Is Imentioning

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“…Several studies have been carried out in the United States concerning the retirement timing patterns of dual-earner couples and the consequences for well-being Henretta & O'Rand, 1983;Henretta, O'Rand, & Chan, 1993a, 1993bShaw, 1984;Szinovacz, 1989Szinovacz, ,1996. These studies indicate that spouses adjust their retirement to each other, and that they prefer to retire jointly.…”

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Retirement Intentions and Spousal Support: A Multi-Actor Approach

Henkens

1999

The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences an

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Objectives. This study investigates the role of the partner in the retirement decision-making process. It determines the extent to which the support and intentions of partners regarding early retirement influence each other, and which partner dominates.Methods. Data have been collected directly from 1,052 older employees working in Dutch industry and trade, and from their spouses. Because it is conceptualized 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.Results. Intentions and support of both partners concerning retirement are strongly related. The 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 the retirement behavior of a couple's social network.Discussion. Future research on the retirement decision-making process should focus on the family unit rather than simply on the individual worker, and be extended to different types of retirement behavior.

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Section: H2b Wives' Support For Their Husbands' Early Retirement Is Imentioning

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Retirement Intentions and Spousal Support: A Multi-Actor Approach

Henkens

1999

The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences an

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“…A number of studies have examined the role of the spouse in retirement decisions. Classic studies (e.g., Szinovacz, 1989) have suggested that women often retire somewhat later than their husbands; however, once husbands retire, their wives tend to retire within a few years. Husbands' retirement was found to be more influential for women than the wives' retirement on husbands in a study using a sample of Cornell University employees (Smith & Moen, 1998).…”

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Working Beyond 65: Predictors of Late Retirement for Women and Men MBAs

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Murrell

2011

Journal of Women & Aging

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Comparisons of those who planned to continue working after the age of 65 with those who did not were made for 145 women and 414 men working in managerial fields. All received MBA degrees between the years of 1973 and 1982. About 20% definitely wanted to work after age 65. More positive views of work were predictive of wanting to continue working as was having nontraditional gender-role attitudes. Men who planned to continue working were particularly likely to have a spouse wanting to work past the age of 65. Several other factors appeared to operate differently for women and men.

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“…Especially when couples seek joint retirement and/or when wives are pressured by their husbands to retire when he does (Hurd, 1990;Szinovacz, 1989a), married women may enter retirement before being ready to relinquish the work role or before reaching desired occupational accomplishments. For example, one of Rubin's (1979: 208) subjects notes: "I don't know what will happen when Me1 has to retire.…”

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