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The Influence of Unpaid Work on the Transition Out of Full-Time Paid Work

Author(s) -

Dawn Carr,

Ben Lennox Kail

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

the gerontologist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524

H-Index - 138

eISSN - 1758-5341

pISSN - 0016-9013

DOI - 10.1093/geront/gns080

Subject(s) - unpaid work , work (physics) , transition (genetics) , transition time , paid work , labour economics , demographic economics , economics , working hours , physics , thermodynamics , management , chemistry , biochemistry , gene

Continued employment after retirement and engagement in unpaid work are both important ways of diminishing the negative economic effects of the retirement of baby boomer cohorts on society. Little research, however, examines the relationship between paid and unpaid work at the transition from full-time work. Using a resource perspective framework this study examines how engagement in unpaid work prior to and at the transition from full-time work influences whether individuals partially or fully retire.

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