Understanding Your Social Security Full Retirement Age and Making Informed Decisions was written by Chris Alarcon and originally appeared on Wealth of Geeks. Chris is the driving force behind Financially Well Off –the ultimate destination for those looking to achieve financial independence, explore the...
Aging and retiring are two different things.They often get mixed up, but aging is the process of getting older, and retirement is the process of disentangling from your career.Traditionally, people retire when they are older, so many people simply see retirement as getting old. You can age w...
Full retirement age is the age you become eligible to receive your full Social Security benefit amount each month. Your full retirement age is dependent on the year you were born, so not everyone will be able to retire at the same age. Because Americans are living longer and collecting mor...
The aims of the present study were to: 1) gain insight into reasons for working beyond the statutory retirement age from older workers’ perspectives, and 2) explore how the domains of the research framework Study on Transitions in Employment, Ability and Motivation (STREAM) can be applied to...
The decline in participation from 1977 to 1982 by men over 65 came entirely at the expense of part-time work; the small fractions working substantially full-time remained stable. On the other hand, men aged 62–64 moved out of both full-time and part-time work; while men under age 62 ...
In several countries, the number of hours worked by general practitioners (GPs) has decreased, raising concern about current and impending workforce shortages. This shorter working week has been ascribed both to the feminisation of the workforce and to a
Cai said that many people reaching 60 — the statutory retirement age for most workers in China — are still willing to continue working and are capable of doing so. Delaying retirement should be based on a voluntary and flexible principle and conducted in an orderly and gradual manner as stat...
connection through shared experiences, emotional closeness, and support. The findings have important implications for researchers and health providers, and suggest that adopting an “affirmative older age” perspective would be useful for not only future research but also when providing support for older...
Oh, and I never feel guilty about being retired. In fact, I never think about my life as “retired life.” It’s just life. Which is probably why I haven’t been blogging about retirement at all the last couple years. I don’t contemplate the “issues” of retirement anymore. ...
Italy has the lowest labor supply of married women among EU countries. Moreover, the participation rate of married women is positively correlated with their husbands’ income. We show that these two features can be partly explained by the tax system: a h