The Skill-Specific Automatability of Aging Workers and Retirement Decisions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeewan Lee
Keyword(s):  
Retirement Decisions ◽  
Aging Workers

PCBs Alter Dopamine Mediated Function in Aging Workers

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard F. Seegal ◽  
Edward F. Fitzgerald ◽  
Eric S. Molho ◽  
Kenneth L. Marek ◽  
John P. Seibyl
Keyword(s):  
Aging Workers

scholarly journals Older workers imagining retirement: the collapse of agency, or freedom at last?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Anne Skevik Grødem ◽  
Ragni Hege Kitterød
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Work Patterns ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
Retirement Decisions ◽  
The Ideal

Abstract Images of what retirement is and ought to be are changing. Older workers are being encouraged to work for longer, at the same time, older adults increasingly voice expectations of a ‘third age’ of active engagement and new life prospects. In this article, we draw on the literature on older workers’ work patterns and retirement transitions (noting push/pull/stay/stuck/jump factors), and on scholarship on the changing social meaning of old age, most importantly the notions of a ‘third’ and ‘fourth’ age. The analysis is based on qualitative interviews with 28 employees in the private sector in Norway, aged between 55 and 66 years. Based on the interviews, we propose three ideal-typical approaches to the work–retirement transition: ‘the logic of deadline’, ‘the logic of negotiation’ and ‘the logic of averting retirement’. The ideal-types are defined by the degree to which informants assume agency in the workplace, their orientation towards work versus retirement and the degree to which they expect to exercise agency in retirement. We emphasise how retirement decisions are informed by notions of the meaning of ageing, while also embedded in relationships with employers and partners.

Judicial Retirement Strategies

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 458-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID C. NIXON ◽  
J. DAVID HASKIN
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Probit Model ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Biographical Data ◽  
Opposing Party ◽  
Retirement Decisions ◽  
Retirement Timing

If judges are politically strategic, they may try to retire at times that maximize the chances that an ideologically compatible successor will be appointed. Using biographical data on all appellate judges who have retired since 1892, a heteroscedastic panel probit model is used to examine retirement timing as a function of personal and political factors. We determine whether retirement from the bench can be explained exclusively by personal factors such as salary, pension, and workload, or if political considerations enter into the decision. The data reveal that retirement decisions are affected primarily by nonpolitical considerations, but presidential elections may factor into a judge's decision. The only important strategic political consideration in evidence is whether a judge contemplating retirement faces an opposing party president and how far off that president's next election is.

scholarly journals Pensions and Retirement Among Black Union Army Veterans

2010 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 567-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dora L. Costa
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Racial Differences ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Union Army ◽  
Income Transfer ◽  
Income Transfers ◽  
Retirement Decisions ◽  
Unearned Income

I examine the effects of an unearned income transfer on the retirement rates and living arrangements of black Union Army veterans. I find that blacks were more than twice as responsive as whites to income transfers in their retirement decisions and 6 to 8 times as responsive in their choice of independent living arrangements. My findings have implications for understanding racial differences in rates of retirement and independent living at the beginning of the twentieth century, the rise in retirement prior to 1930, and the subsequent convergence in black-white retirement rates and living arrangements.

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