I'd rather keep running to the end and then jump off the cliff’. Retirement Decisions
Who Decides
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10918291 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Vickerstaff (0000-0003-2572-3582, University of Kent, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 455-472 |
| Publication date | 2006-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Social Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047279406009871 |
| OpenAlex | W1974896862 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 10 |
Government in the UK, as elsewhere in Europe, is keen to encourage individuals to delay their retirement, work for longer and save more for their retirement. This article argues that much of this public discussion is based on the debatable premise that most people are actively choosing to leave work ‘early’. Research on retirement decisions hitherto has concentrated on individual factors, which dispose towards early retirement and has neglected the role of the employer in determining retirement timing. New research reported here, undertaken in three organisational case studies, explores the management of retirement and how individual employees experience these processes. It employs the concepts of the ‘retirement zone’ and retirement scenarios to demonstrate how the interaction of individual attributes (themselves subject to change) and organisational practices (also unpredictable and variable) produces retirement outcomes. It concludes that there is considerable management discretion over the manner and timing of individual retirements. Hence, government needs to recognise that the majority of individuals may have relatively little personal discretion over their departure from work and hence concentration on urging them to work for longer and delay retiring may be missing the real target for policy change
Actuarial science · Business · Discretion · Dispose pattern · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Labour economics · Mandatory retirement · Pension · Political science · Premise · Retirement age · Work (physics) · Employment and Welfare Studies · Finance · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Law · Retirement, Disability, and Employment
Helping the Poorest Help Themselves? Encouraging Employment Past 65 in England and the USA
When and Why Do Employers (Re)Hire Employees Beyond Normal Retirement Age
Motivational Drivers of Temporal Dynamics in Postretirement Work
Exploring Teachers’ Early-Retirement Decisions
The Impact of Age Stereotypes and Age Norms on Employees’ Retirement Choices
The Netherworld between Work and Retirement
Women and Men as Managers
Life-Course Influences on Extended Working
Approaching retirement
Working beyond the state pension age in the United Kingdom
Prolonging the careers of older information technology workers
Closing the age gap? Age, skills and the experience of work in Great Britain
Planning for uncertainty’
Work, health and the commodification of life's time
Retirement timing in a future welfare state
Getting Citizens to Save
Ageing Organisations and the Extension of Working Lives
Labour Market Policy for ‘Active Ageing’ in Europe
| Citations per year | 0.95 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2022 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |