TY - JOUR
T1 - Clocking out
T2 - Temporal patterning of retirement
AU - Han, Shin Kap
AU - Moen, Phyllis
PY - 1999/7
Y1 - 1999/7
N2 - This article draws on life history data of the cohorts of recent U.S. retirees to examine the temporal patterning of retirement. Three major dimensions - historical context, social heterogeneity, and, most important, biographical pacing, measured by cohort, gender, and career pathway, respectively - operate simultaneously, yet unevenly, to affect various aspects of the retirement process. Findings suggest that changes over the past few decades have undermined the regularity in retirement timing that was a product of the convergence of diverse institutional features, anchored by a large core of men on traditional career tracks. Focusing on retirement, our model underscores the multiplex nature of the temporal structuring of the life course.
AB - This article draws on life history data of the cohorts of recent U.S. retirees to examine the temporal patterning of retirement. Three major dimensions - historical context, social heterogeneity, and, most important, biographical pacing, measured by cohort, gender, and career pathway, respectively - operate simultaneously, yet unevenly, to affect various aspects of the retirement process. Findings suggest that changes over the past few decades have undermined the regularity in retirement timing that was a product of the convergence of diverse institutional features, anchored by a large core of men on traditional career tracks. Focusing on retirement, our model underscores the multiplex nature of the temporal structuring of the life course.
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U2 - 10.1086/210271
DO - 10.1086/210271
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0039242044
SN - 0002-9602
VL - 105
SP - 191
EP - 236
JO - American Journal of Sociology
JF - American Journal of Sociology
IS - 1
ER -