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Der Übergang in den Ruhestand von Ehepaaren: Auswirkungen individueller und familiärer Lebensverläufe
The timing of retirement of married couples: impacts of individual and family life cycles
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Abstract "The paper addresses two questions. (1) Which factors help us to understand the timing of retirement of individuals: When and why do men and women retire and what are the differences among them? (2) Which factors help us to understand the timing of retirement of couples: Why do some couples retire j... view more
"The paper addresses two questions. (1) Which factors help us to understand the timing of retirement of individuals: When and why do men and women retire and what are the differences among them? (2) Which factors help us to understand the timing of retirement of couples: Why do some couples retire jointly while others retire separately? These questions are analyzed by using retrospective data taken from the German Life History Study, age cohort 1919/21. Logit analysis show how age and health related factors as well as attributes of the occupational trajectory are most decisive for men while women retire according to the interaction between occupational factors and family conditions, such as spouses' age, labor force participation and income. At the level of households, discriminant analyses indicate that the concepts of status compatibility between spouses (Parsons, Oppenheimer) can explain whether spouses retire jointly or separately. Hence, it does not suffice to know individual attributes of wife and husband (such as their age). Instead, the household life course and the intrafamilial inequality between husband and wife must be taken into account in any analysis of individual life courses." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
retirement; married couple; retirement age; impact; individual; family; life career; gender-specific factors; man; woman; social inequality; employment behavior; employment history; Federal Republic of Germany
Classification
Family Sociology, Sociology of Sexual Behavior
Method
empirical
Document language
German
Publication Year
1990
Page/Pages
p. 272-303
Journal
Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Sonderheft (1990) 31
Issue topic
Lebensverläufe und sozialer Wandel
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10419/112496
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