The empirical research about the labour force participation of older people has received increasing attention since the 1990s in the UK as there are growing concerns about the ageing of the population and the level of finance needed to support the elderly. Therefore, this thesis analyses main determinants associated with the retirement decisions of both men and women using discrete choice models. Age, health, education attainments, unearned income and pension eligibility are the most important determinants influencing the likelihood of retirement. On the other hand, the effects of other factors, such as hourly earnings, marital status, education, housing tenure, and other individual and household characteristics differ from 1991 to 2013. The other underlying factor that the study examines is the influence of gender disparity on retirement decisions of older people using nonlinear decomposition methods and which factors cause gender gap in retirement decisions. The gender disparity influenced by demographic and financial factors has not been significantly reduced over time. Age, hourly earnings, non-labour income and pension eligibility increase the gender gap, whereas education, good health conditions and being a homeowner act to reduce the gender gap in the retirement process. Moreover, this thesis points out the importance of partial retirement in the British labour market, which has been less subject to research in the UK, and it is found as an important concept to promote longer working lives among older people. Age, education and crisis period were found to be important determinants of partial retirement, while poor health, household income levels, and marital status, were found to be insignificant.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University. / Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: William P. Anderson. Dissertation Committee: Frank L. Smith, Jr. Bibliography: leaves 101-104.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1987. / Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Ellen Kehoe. Dissertation Committee: William P. Anderson. Bibliography: leaves 120-125.

This study focuses the effects of demographic characteristics, health status, income, work attitudes, and leisure activity involvements have on satisfaction in retirement and the retirement timing decision. The review of the literature revealed that no single variable alone is the predictor of retirement satisfaction and the timing of the retirement decision. Therefore, a conceptual model was developed to measure the two central research questions. The conceptual model is based on five categorical factors as the determinants of retirement satisfaction and timing. The five main factors in the model are: demographic characteristics, health status, income level, work attitudes and leisure activity involvement. Multi-item scales were developed from data on 231 retirees and 908 older workers. The two samples were currently and/or formerly employed with the same high technology, Fortune 500 firm. The adequate number of both males and females in the two samples provide the opportunity to do a comparative analysis between men and women. It was clear from the data analysis that the independent variables selected explained a low percentage of the variance in both retirement satisfaction and the timing of the retirement decision. The comparative analysis between men and women did suggest that the retirement experience for women is different from men. The findings suggest that the variables that contribute to the two outcomes lay outside the conceptual model. However, the findings suggest that satisfaction in retirement is partially determined by gender, health status, income, work attitudes and leisure activity involvement. The research findings indicate variables that contribute significantly to the timing of the retirement decision, but no one variable or combination of variables have strong predictive power. This implies that the independent variables found in the literature are not the key determinants of retirement satisfaction or retirement timing. Policy implications and suggestions for future research are discussed.

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The ageing of the Swedish population entails an increase of public and pension expenditure. A solution to keep the compensation level constant is to make individuals retire later from the labor force. In order to understand what actions need to be implemented, there is a need of more knowledge about the characteristics of individuals who chose to remain in the labor force after the normal age of retirement. This essay investigates how senior workers’ that are above the normal retirement age responds to an increase of non-labor income and how it affects labor supply. The results show that around 66 % of individuals will continue to work to the same extent, around 15 % will choose to reduce hours of work, and near 19 % will chose to retire. Also the results show that a person that will not change anything in hours of work after an increase in non-labor income will most likely be a male that is self-employed, who really likes his job and has a postgraduate degree. One conclusion in this essay is that to only focus on compensation levels in different social insurance systems to increase senior workers’ labor force participation will not be as effective as if also focus would be on social norms and cultural beliefs to increase engagement towards work.

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The work participation rate is one of the most important factors that affects the Canadian economy and early retirement can have an important negative impact on this rate. This paper focuses on differences in the preferences for the age of retirement of immigrants and Canadian-born workers. Based on a very large dataset from the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS), a probit model is used to estimate the probability of retirement for both immigrants and Canadian-born workers at different age ranges. The main results suggest that immigrants tend to retire at an older age than Canadian-born workers. This result is consistent with the first assumption that immigrants are willing to work longer to increase their CPP and their personal saving, and the second assumption that immigrants have a potential better health status, which could also lead to a later retirement.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2008. / Title from file title page. Sally Wallace, committee chair; Bruce A. Seaman, Klara S. Peter, Stephen J. Kay, committee members. Electronic text (116 p. : col. ill. ) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Sept. 25, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 112-115).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio University, June, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 129-142)