Retirement: Reasons, Processes, and Results

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826120547
• ISBN13: 9780826120540
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 7.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"