1. Retirement transitions in the 21st century: a scoping review of the changing nature of retirement in Europe.
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LASSEN, ASKE JUUL and VRANGBÆK, KARSTEN
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RETIREMENT ,TWENTY-first century ,SELF-employment ,PRODUCTIVE life span ,BABY boom generation ,RETIREMENT communities ,OLD age - Abstract
The ways to transition from work-life to retirement are undergoing important transformations. The timing and pathways are changing, and many individuals are undergoing long periods of being in between working and retirement life. Yet, our cultural understandings of retirement tend to maintain a clear distinction between pre- and post-retirement life. Although the changes in retirement transitions are not new, the trend has accelerated in recent decades. We focus on what is known from the literature about the tendencies in alternative retirement transitions of healthy seniors in Europe since 2000. We review some conceptual and political transitions in the societal understandings of retirement, followed by a scoping review in three sections: (1) later life employment transitions (bridge employment and employment after retirement), (2) self-employment, and (3) unretirement. We conclude that although 21st-century retirement transitions are complex and understudied, there are clear tendencies regarding who engages in such practices and why. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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