Unanticipated Consequences: A Comparison of Expected and Actual Retirement Timing Among Older Women

Zimmerman, L. J.; Mitchell, Barbara; Wister, Andrew; Gutman, Gloria

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“…Health issues and other unexpected family events may lead to retirement in unexpected ways (Zimmerman, Mitchell, Wister, & Gutman, 2000). Our methodology did not allow us to examine such factors.…”

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

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Olson

Murrell

2011

Journal of Women & Aging

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“…Some studies pay attention to retirement intentions (e.g., Honig 1998;Zimmerman et al 2000), but none of these examine behavior concurrently among the same women. Examining intentions in addition to behavior can, however, be expected to result in a more comprehensive understanding of the way in which women's retirement processes are embedded in the family life course.…”

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Women’s Retirement Intentions and Behavior: The Role of Childbearing and Marital Histories

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Although from a life course perspective women's retirement timing can be expected to be related to family events earlier in life, such as childbirth and divorce, empirical insights into these relationships show that women who postponed childbearing and still have children living at home during preretirement years have the intention to retire relatively late. For retirement behavior this effect was not statistically significant. Ever divorced single women both intend to and actually retire later than continuously married women. Repartnering after a divorce seems to offset the negative divorce effect: retirement timing intentions and behavior of repartnered women did not differ from continuously married women. Also the preretirement financial, health, and work opportunity structure -factors that are often central in studies among men -did play an explanatory role. Women who have a less beneficial preretirement financial situation, a better health situation, and challenging work intend to and actually retire relatively late.

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“…Este hecho ha sido apoyado por diversos autores que han señalado que este nivel de actividad puede ser explicado porque la mujer tiene que asumir las tareas domesticas y el cuidado de familiares. (Barnes y Parry, 2004;Gómez y Martí, 2003: Pinquart y Schindler, 2007Zimmerman et al, 2000).…”

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Relaciones entre factores sociodemográficos, motivación hacia el retiro temprano y satisfacción en la vida postlaboral: análisis exploratorio en una muestra de prejubilados españoles

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2008

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ArtículoRelaciones entre factores sociodemográficos, motivación hacia el retiro temprano y satisfacción en la vida postlaboral: análisis exploratorio en una muestra de prejubilados españoles* Relationships between sociodemographic factors, motivation towards early retirement and satisfaction in post-working life: an exploratory analysis in a sample of spanish early retirees RESUMENLa prejubilación es una experiencia heterogénea en lo referente tanto a la forma en que se produce la salida laboral como a sus posteriores consecuencias personales y psicosociales. Con el objetivo de conocer la relación entre variables sociodemográficas, motivos de la salida organizacional temprana, y ajuste a la vida postlaboral se administró una adaptación del Retirement Satisfaction Inventory (Floyd et al., 1992) a una muestra de 638 prejubilados españoles con una media de edad de 61.28 años. Los datos obtenidos fueron analizados mediante ANOVA. Con respecto a la motivación hacia el retiro, las mujeres tienen más intereses en aceptar la oferta de retiro temprano que los hombres, mientras que estos seña-lan haber experimentado más problemas de salud y presiones organizacionales. Los prejubilados con un mayor nivel formativo presentan un mayor interés en el retiro temprano, y los prejubilados con mayor nivel profesional mantienen una mayor satisfacción con el reti- ro. Conocer las relaciones entre características sociodemográficas, motivación hacia el retiro temprano y satisfacción en la vida post-laboral es un primer paso necesario para desarrollar análisis más complejos sobre las experiencias de prejubilación. ABSTRACTEarly retirement is a heterogeneous experience with regard to both the way the exit from the working life is carried out and the personal and psychosocial consequences. In order to explore relationships between socio-demographic variables, causes of early retirement and satisfaction with post-working life, we administered an adaptation of the Retirement Satisfaction Inventory (Floyd et al., 1992) to a sample of 638 Spanish early retirees with an average age of 61.28. One-factor ANOVA was used for data analysis. Concerning the reasons for early retirement, pursuing personal interests was more important for women than for men. Men highlighted health problems and pressures from employer as reasons for early retirement to a greater extent than women. Highly educated early retirees were more interested in early retirement and early retirees with higher professional status showed a better adaptation to retirement. Knowing the relationships between socio-demographic characteristics, motivation towards retirement and retirement satisfaction is a first step to develop more complex analysis of the early-retirement experiences. PALABRAS CLAVEPrejubilación, Razones para el retiro, Motivación hacia el retiro temprano, Satisfacción post-laboral, Fuentes de disfrute.

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Unanticipated Consequences: A Comparison of Expected and Actual Retirement Timing Among Older Women

Cited by 48 publications

References 24 publications

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

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

Women’s Retirement Intentions and Behavior: The Role of Childbearing and Marital Histories

Relaciones entre factores sociodemográficos, motivación hacia el retiro temprano y satisfacción en la vida postlaboral: análisis exploratorio en una muestra de prejubilados españoles

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