TY - JOUR
T1 - Embedded Career Clocks
T2 - The Case of Retirement Planning
AU - Moen, Phyllis
AU - Sweet, Stephen
AU - Swisher, Raymond
N1 - Funding Information:
Support was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Grant 2002-6-8) and the National Institute on Aging (P50 AG11711).
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - We investigate employees' expectations and planning about a key later life course transition, retirement. Drawing on an organizationally derived sample of workers in dual-earner households in upstate New York, we find that personal mastery, along with health, income, and job conditions, are key predictors of planning. Also important are prior biographical pacing, gender, and relational contexts (at home and at work). Members of today's mostly baby boom cohort tend to plan more financially than for life after retirement, and most anticipate retiring earlier than the conventional age of 65.
AB - We investigate employees' expectations and planning about a key later life course transition, retirement. Drawing on an organizationally derived sample of workers in dual-earner households in upstate New York, we find that personal mastery, along with health, income, and job conditions, are key predictors of planning. Also important are prior biographical pacing, gender, and relational contexts (at home and at work). Members of today's mostly baby boom cohort tend to plan more financially than for life after retirement, and most anticipate retiring earlier than the conventional age of 65.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33646415304&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=33646415304&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/S1040-2608(04)09009-4
DO - 10.1016/S1040-2608(04)09009-4
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:33646415304
VL - 9
SP - 237
EP - 265
JO - Advances in Life Course Research
JF - Advances in Life Course Research
SN - 1040-2608
ER -