The Oxford Handbook of Retirement

Edited by Mo Wang

Oxford Library of Psychology

Offers comprehensive, up-to-date, and forward thinking summaries of contemporary knowledge on retirement
Examines retirement from an international perspective, surveying knowledge and findings across countries, regions, and entities that are governed by different socio-economic policies
Assembling expertly authored chapters from leaders in the field, this volume provides a comprehensive summary on the knowledge domain of retirement useful for students, academics, and retirement researchers
Part of THE OXFORD LIBRARY OF PSYCHOLOGY

The Oxford Handbook of Retirement

Edited by Mo Wang

Description

As the Baby Boom generation approaches traditional retirement age, the aging of the global labor force will continue to lead to an increase in the number of people who will transition into retirement in the next decade. Retirement researchers have made several important advances in their field in recent years that represent a shift from examining retirement through an economic to a psychological perspective. Retirement is not simply a one-time decision-making event; rather, it represents a process through which workers decrease their psychological commitment to work and behaviorally withdraw from the workforce.

Approaching retirement from this perspective, The Oxford Handbook of Retirement offers comprehensive, up-to-date, and forward-thinking summaries of contemporary knowledge on retirement. The approach is interdisciplinary, spanning human resource management, organizational psychology, development psychology, gerontology, sociology, public health, and economics. The chapters assembled in this volume are organized into five parts, providing comprehensive coverage conceptualizations of retirement from multiple disciplines; existing theoretical perspectives and research findings on retirement, including adult development, career development, organizational and management, and economic perspectives; current and future challenges in retirement research and practice; and recommendations and suggestions for prospective areas of research.

Assembling expertly authored chapters from leaders in the field, this volume provides a comprehensive summary on the knowledge domain of retirement useful for students, academics, and retirement researchers.

The Oxford Handbook of Retirement

Edited by Mo Wang

Oxford Library of Psychology

Part One: General Introduction

1. Retirement: An Introduction and Overview of the Handbook
Mo Wang

2. The Evolving History of Retirement within the United States
Michael J. Zickar

3. The Demography of Aging and Retirement
Felicia Wheaton and Eileen M. Crimmins

4. Variations on a Retirement Theme: Conceptual and Operational Definitions of Retirement
Terry A. Beehr and Nathan A. Bowling

Part Two: Retirement Process Theoretical Perspectives

5. The Life Course Perspective on Life in the Post-Retirement Period
Paul Wink and Jacquelyn Boone James

6. Continuity Theory and Retirement
Monika E. von Bonsdorff and Juhani Ilmarinen

7. The Theory of Selection, Optimization and Compensation
Boris B. Baltes and Cort W. Rudolph

8. Protean Career Model and Retirement
Najung Kim and Douglas T. Hall

9. Retirement and Human Resources Management: A Strategic Approach
Barbara L. Rau and Gary A. Adams

10. Economic Theories of Retirement
John Laitner and Aanda Sonnega

11. A Multilevel Perspective for Retirement Research
Maximiliane E. Szinovacz

Part Three: Retirement Practice

12. Research Methods in Retirement Research
Gwenith G. Fisher and Robert J. Willis

13. Age, Gender, and the Retirement Process.
Barbara Griffin, Vanessa Loh, and Beryl Hesketh

14. The Employer's Perspective on Retirement
Kène Henkens and Hendrik P. van Dalen

15. Retirement Attitudes: Considering Etiology, Measurement, Attitude-Behavior Relationships, and Attitudinal Ambivalence
Daniel A. Newman, Gahyun Jeon, and Charles L. Hulin

16. Planning and Adaptation to Retirement: The Post-Retirement Environment, Change Management Resources, and Need-Oriented Factors as Moderators
Mary Anne Taylor and Meline Schaffer

17. Retirement Decision Making
Steve M. Jex and James Grosch

18. Feeling Like It's Time to Retire: A Fit Perspective on Early Retirement Decisions
Daniel C. Feldman

19. Bridge Employment
Kevin E. Cahill, Michael D. Giandre, and Joseph F. Quinn

20. Adjustment to Retirement
Hanna van Solinge

21. The Association of Retirement with Physical and Behavioral Health
William T. Gallo

22. Leisure Activities in Retirement
Lorraine T. Dorfman

23. Family, Work, and the Retirement Process: A Review and New Directions
Russell A. Matthews and Gwenith G. Fisher

Part Four: Retirement Practice

24. Social Security, Pension System, and Retirement Savings
Xiang Yao and Haoran Peng

25. Employment Law and Retirement
Christina L. Causey and Joanna N. Lahey

26. Effective Financial Planning for Retirement
Douglas A. Hershey, Joy M. Jacobs-Lawson, and James T. Austin

27. Recruitment and Retention Strategies for Mature Workers
Jeanette N. Cleveland and Sarina M. Maneotis

28. Designing Early Retirement Incentive Programs
Yujie Zhan

29. Health Care and Health Insurance in Retirement
Karoline Mortensen and Jennifer Villani

30. Learning and Training in Retirement
Jerry W. Hedge and Victoria A. Albright

31. Technology and Retirement Life: A Systematic Review of the Literature on Older Adults and Social Media
Bo Xie, Man Huang, and Ivan Watkins

32. Retirement Practices in Different Countries
José María Peiró, Núria Tordera, and Kristina Potocnik

Part Five: Future Trends and Conclusions

33. The Changing Nature of Work and Retirement
Kenneth S. Shultz and Deborah A. Olson

34. Collision Course: The Impending Impact of Current Immigration and Retirement Trends
Derek R. Avery, Sabrina D. Volpone, and Aleksandra Luksyte

35. Generational Differences in Older Workers and Retirement
Jesse Erdheim and Michael A. Lodato

36. Retirement and Creativity
Ryan Fehr

37. Retirement Research: Concluding Observations and Strategies to Move Forward
Mo Wang

The Oxford Handbook of Retirement

Edited by Mo Wang

Oxford Library of Psychology

Author Information

Mo Wang, Ph.D., is Associate Professor, Department of Management, Warrington College of Business Administration, University of Florida.

Contributors:

Gary A. Adams
College of Business
University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI

Victoria A. Albright
RTI International
Research Triangle Park, NC

James T. Austin
Department of Psychology
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH

Derek R. Avery
Department of Psychology
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA

Boris B. Baltes
Department of Psychology
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI

Terry A. Beehr
Industrial and Organizational Psychology Program
Central Michigan University
Mount Pleasant, MI

Nathan A. Bowling
Department of Psychology
Wright State University
Dayton, OH

Kevin E. Cahill
Sloan Center on Aging and Work
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA

Christina L. Causey
Harvard University Law School
Cambridge, MA

Jeanette N. Cleveland
Department of Psychology
The Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO

Eileen M. Crimmins
Andrus Gerontology Center
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

Lorraine T. Dorfman
School of Social Work and Aging Studies Program
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA

Jesse Erdheim
NSF Academy
National Science Foundation
Arlington, VA

Ryan Fehr
Department of Management and Organization
Michael G. Foster School of Business
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Daniel C. Feldman
UGA Terry College of Business
University of Georgia
Athens, GA

Gwenith G. Fisher
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

William T. Gallo
School of Public Health and Graduate Center
City University of New York
New York, NY

Michael D. Giandrea
Office of Production and Technology
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Washington, D.C.

Barbara Griffin
Department of Psychology
Macquarie University
Macquarie Park, Australia

James Grosch
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Atlanta, GA

Douglas T. Hall
School of Management
Boston University
Boston, MA

Jerry W. Hedge
RTI International
Research Triangle Park, NC

Kène Henkens
Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)
Department of Sociology
Tilburg University
Tilburg, The Netherlands

Douglas A. Hershey
Department of Psychology
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK

Beryl Hesketh
School of Computing, Engineering, and Mathematics
University of Western Sydney
Penrith, Australia

Man Huang
College of Information Studies
University of Maryland
College Park, MD

Charles L. Hulin
Department of Psychology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL

Juhani Ilmarinen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
Juhani Ilmarinen Consulting, Ltd.
Helsinki, Finland

Joy M. Jacobs-Lawson
Graduate Center for Gerontology
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY

Jacquelyn Boone James
Sloan Center on Aging & Work
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA

Gahyun Jeon
Department of Psychology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL

Steve M. Jex
Department of Psychology
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH

Najung Kim
Carroll School of Management
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA

Joanna N. Lahey
The Bush School of Government and Public Service
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX

John Laitner
Department of Economics
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Michael A. Lodato
ICF International
Fairfax, VA

Vanessa Loh
Department of Psychology
Macquarie University
Sydney, Australia

Aleksandra Luksyte
Department of Psychology
University of Houston
Houston, TX

Sarina M. Maneotis
Department of Psychology
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA

Russell A. Matthews
Department of Psychology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA

Karoline Mortensen
Department of Health Services Administration
University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, MD

Daniel A. Newman
Department of Psychology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL

Deborah A. Olson
Department of Management and Leadership
University of La Verne
La Verne, CA

José M. Peiró
Departamento de Psicología Social
Universitat de València
Valencia, Spain

Haoran Peng
Lingnan College
Sun Yat-sen University
Guangzhou, China

Kristina Potocnik
Business School
Brunel University
Middlesex, UK

Joseph F. Quinn
Department of Economics
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA

Barbara L. Rau
College of Business
University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI

Cort W. Rudolph
Department of Psychology
Florida International University
Miami, FL

Meline Schaffer
Department of Psychology
Clemson University
Clemson, SC

Kenneth S. Shultz
Department of Psychology
California State University, San Bernardino
San Bernardino, CA

Amanda Sonnega
School of Kinesiology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Maximiliane E. Szinovacz
Gerontology Institute and Department
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Boston, MA

Mary Anne Taylor
Department of Psychology
Clemson University
Clemson, SC

Núria Tordera
IDOCAL Research Institute
University of Valencia
Valencia, Spain

Hendrik P. van Dalen
Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)
Department of Economics and CentER
Tilburg University
Tilburg, The Netherlands

Hanna van Solinge
Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)
The Hague, The Netherlands

Jennifer Villani
School of Public Health
University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, MD

Sabrina D. Volpone
Fox School of Business
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA

Monika E. von Bonsdorff
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
Department of Health Sciences
University of Jyväskylä
Jyväskylä, Finland

Mo Wang
Department of Management
University of Florida
Gainseville, FL

Ivan Watkins
College of Information Studies
University of Maryland
College Park, MD

Felicia Wheaton
Andrus Gerontology Center
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

Robert J. Willis
Institute for Social Research and Department of Economics
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Paul Wink
Department of Psychology
Wellesley College
Wellesley, MA

Bo Xie
College of Information Studies
University of Maryland
College Park, MD

Xiang Yao
Department of Psychology
Peking University
Beijing, China

Yujie Zhan
School of Business and Economics
Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Michael J. Zickar
Department of Psychology
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH

The Oxford Handbook of Retirement

Edited by Mo Wang

Oxford Library of Psychology

Reviews and Awards

"This book is a stepping stone to more study and research on the topic of retirement. Many of the books on this subject for practitioners like me are typically how-to books with minimal insight into the scholarly research that has gone into what is being offered. As a practitioner that appreciates a "scholar-practitioner" model, I found this handbook to be very helpful, especially about areas with which I am less familiar or in areas in which I might want to augment my knowledge." -- Doody's