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Back to Work: Expectations and Realizations of Work after Retirement
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This paper analyzes a puzzling aspect of retirement behavior known as "unretirement." Nearly 50 percent of retirees follow a nontraditional retirement path that involves partial retirement or unretirement, and at least 26 percent of retirees later unretire. I explore two possible explanations: 1) unretirement transitions result from failures in planning or financial shocks; and 2) unretirement transitions are anticipated prior to retirement, reflecting a more complex retirement process. I show that unretirement was anticipated for the vast majority of those returning to work, and is not a result of financial shocks, poor planning or low wealth accumulation.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Maestas, N.
- Venue
- Journal of Human Resources
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Published
- 2010
- Volume
- 45
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 718-748
- ISSN
- 0022-166X (ISSN-L)
- 1548-8004
- OpenAlex
- W2110876647
- Cited by
- 387
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 61.73
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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