Retirement Sequences of Older Americans: Moderately Destandardized and Highly Stratified Across Gender, Class, and Race.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose of the study

A destandardization of labor-force patterns revolving around retirement has been observed in recent literature. It is unclear, however, to which degree and of which kind. This study looked at sequences rather than individual statuses or transitions and argued that differentiating older Americans' retirement sequences by type, order, and timing and considering gender, class, and race differences yields a less destandardized picture.

Design and methods

Sequence analysis was employed to analyze panel data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) for 7,881 individuals observed 6 consecutive times between ages 60-61 and 70-71.

Results

As expected, types of retirement sequences were identified that cannot be subsumed under the conventional model of co

SUBMITTER: Calvo E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7594171 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature