Retirement: Reasons, Processes, and Results / Edition 1

by Gary A. Adams PhD, Terry A. Beehr PhD

Overview

This book reviews, summarizes, and integrates a diverse literature on the topic of retirement and provides a coherent view to better inform researchers and practitioners. Organized around three phases of the retirement process—pre-retirement, retirement decision-making, and post-retirement—the chapters examine economic, sociological, gerontological, and psychological theory and research. Topics discussed include: types of retirement, retirement planning and preparation, early retirement incentive programs, the economics of the retirement decision-making, and work after retirement, among others. Contributors include Jerome Kaplan, Kenneth Shultz, Harvey Sterns, and Linda Stroh.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826120540
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	08/11/2003
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.84(d)

Table of Contents

• Introduction and Overview of Current Research and Thinking on Retirement, T.A. Beehr and G.A. Adams
• Contexts and Pathways: Retirement as Institution, Process, and Experience, M.D. Szinovacz
• Retirement Planning and Preparation, M.A. Taylor
• Endgame: The Design and Implementation of Early Retirement Incentive Programs, D.C. Feldman
• Extending Work Lives: Are Current Approaches Tools or Talismans?, M.M. Greller and L.K. Stroh
• The Economics of the Retirement Decision, C.B. Hatcher
• Beyond Health and Wealth: Attitudinal and Other Influences on Retirement Decision-making, J.L. Barnes-Farrell
• Self-Management of Career and Retirement, H.L. Sterns and J. Kaplan
• Bridge Employment: Work After Retirement, K.S. Shultz
• Early Retirement Systems and Behavior: An International Perspective, K. Henkens, H.P. Van Dalen, and Erasmus
• University Rotterdam Data Analytic Techniques for Retirement Research, M.J. Zickar and R.E. Gibby
• Concluding Observations and Future Endeavors, T.A. Beehr and G.A. Adams