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Retirement: Reasons, Processes, and Results
Author(s): Gary A. Adams PhD (Editor), Terry A. Beehr PhD
- Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
- Publication Date: August 11, 2003
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 328 pages
- ISBN-10: 0826120547
- ISBN-13: 9780826120540
Book Description
This book reviews, summarizes, and integrates a diverse literature on the topic of retirement and provides a coherent view to better inform researchers and practitioners. Organized around three phases of the retirement process–pre-retirement, retirement decision-making, and post-retirement–the chapters examine economic, sociological, gerontological, and psychological theory and research. Topics discussed include: types of retirement, retirement planning and preparation, early retirement incentive programs, the economics of the retirement decision-making, and work after retirement, among others. Contributors include Jerome Kaplan, Kenneth Shultz, Harvey Sterns, and Linda Stroh.
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This book reviews, summarizes, and integrates a diverse literature on the topic of retirement and provides a coherent view to better inform researchers and practitioners. Organized around three phases of the retirement process–pre-retirement, retirement decision-making, and post-retirement–the chapters examine economic, sociological, gerontological, and psychological theory and research. Topics discussed include: types of retirement, retirement planning and preparation, early retirement incentive programs, the economics of the retirement decision-making, and work after retirement, among others. Contributors include Jerome Kaplan, Kenneth Shultz, Harvey Sterns, and Linda Stroh. “
