Health Subjectivities and Labor Market Participation: Pessimism and Older Workers' Attitudes and Narratives Around Retirement in the United Kingdom
Health Subjectivities and Labor Market Participation: Pessimism and Older Workers' Attitudes and Narratives Around Retirement in the United Kingdom
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DOI：
10.1177/0164027511410249
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发表时间：
2011-09-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Vickerstaff, Sarah
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文献类型：
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作者：
Brown, Patrick;Vickerstaff, Sarah
围绕退休和继续参与劳动力市场的决定，对于那些制定这些决定的人，以及政策制定者、研究人员、福利国家和养老金计划都具有重要意义。这些文献承认这些选择的多面性，特别是关键变量的相互作用--工作满意度、经济状况、照顾责任、配偶的计划和健康。本文探讨了后一种因素，挑战了它可以被视为一个没有问题的自变量的假设。通过对96名即将退休或即将退休的人进行访谈的定性数据分析，健康的主观体验及其对决策的影响是非常明显的。在社会、组织、家庭和个人生活历史层面形成的社会化背景，对于理解相似的发病症状如何导致截然不同的决定/结果至关重要。受社会结构影响的直接人际关系经验有助于解释健康悲观情绪的流行，尽管预期寿命普遍增加。
Decisions around retirement and continued labor market participation are of great significance for those who make them, as well as policy makers, researchers, welfare states, and pension programs. The literature acknowledges the multifaceted nature of these choices and particularly the interaction of key variables-job satisfaction, financial status, caring responsibilities, spouse's plans, and health. This article explores this latter factor, challenging assumptions that it can be treated as an unproblematic independent variable. Analyzing qualitative data from interviews with 96 people approaching or in the midst of retirement, the subjective experience of health and its effect on decisions was strongly evident. The socialized context-as shaped at societal, organizational, household, and individual-life-historical levels-was crucial in understanding how similar symptoms of morbidity resulted in widely varying decisions/outcomes. Direct interpersonal experiences, shaped by social structures, were useful in explaining the prevalence of health pessimism, despite general increases in life expectancy.