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Title: How Do Families Fare When the Breadwinner Retires?
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Sproat, Kezia |
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How Do Families Fare When the Breadwinner Retires? Monthly Labor Review 106,12 (December 1983): 40-44. Also: http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1983/12/art7abs.htm Cohort(s): Mature Women, Older Men Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor Keyword(s): Age and Ageing; Employment; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Income Dynamics/Shocks; Leisure; Life Satisfaction; Retirement/Retirement Planning This review article focuses on recent NLS-based research on retirement. Using the older men's data, researchers have found stark differences in the effects of retirement on family life, depending on the retiree's reason for leaving the work force. Poor health forces many to retire early and the families of such men often suffer economic disadvantages; but the trend to early retirement is largely driven by the increasing attractiveness of pensions with early retirement provisions, which make retirement economically feasible for those covered by such plans. The 1980 NLS survey also included questions about leisure time activities, attitudes toward retirement and life satisfaction. Health, occupational level, and family income influenced the extent of purposeful leisure time activities, which in turn influenced satisfaction. Women's retirement plans were independent of their husbands' except when both spouses were the same age. |
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Sproat, Kezia. "How Do Families Fare When the Breadwinner Retires?" Monthly Labor Review 106,12 (December 1983): 40-44.
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