Early Retirement in a Period of High Unemployment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2113337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frank Laczko, Angela Dale (0000-0001-5057-3470), Sara Arber, Nigel Gilbert (0000-0002-5937-2410), G Nigel Gilbert |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 313-333 |
| Publication date | 1988-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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/s0047279400016834 |
| OpenAlex | W2057637678 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 9 |
Early retirement is a policy for tackling unemployment which is popular among unions, employers and government, but there has been little recent research on its social implications for the individuals concerned. This article examines the reasons given by older men for retiring early and investigates the extent of income poverty in early retirement. Particular attention is paid to how early retirement is defined and to the differences between the early retired, the sick and the unemployed. Using data for men aged 60-64 from the General Household Survey for the years 1980-82 and from the Labour Force Survey of 1983, it is shown that ill-health is a less important reason for retirement than previous studies have suggested and that those who retire early are divided by class, with manual workers being more likely to retire early because of redundancy and more likely to be living on very low incomes than non-manual workers
Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Labour economics · Poverty · Unemployment · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Retirement, Disability, and Employment
The Malthusian fallacy
Loss of employment and mortality
Older workers
New Poverty and the Old Poor
Everyday discrimination in the workplace, job satisfaction and psychological wellbeing
On how the nature of early retirement is related to post-retirement life conditions from a citizenship perspective
Work, health and the commodification of life's time
Social polarization in Britain 1973-82 - evidence from the General Household Survey
Under the Wife's Feet
The Invisibility of Age
Factors Associated with Employment Status in Later Working Life
Early Retired or Long-Term Unemployed
Cumulative (Dis)advantage? The Impact of Labour Market Policies on Late Career Employment from a Life Course Perspective
Paying for Early Retirement
Dependency and Ageing in Britain
Poverty in the United Kingdom
Poverty in the United Kingdom
Retirement
Old People in Three Industrial Societies
Managerial Reactions to Job Redundancy through Early Retirements
Old People in Three Industrial Societies
Second Adolescence? The Transition from Paid Employment
Incomes of the Early Retired
Disability, Retirement and Unemployment of Older Men
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,41 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2020 (32) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |