Employment and social integration in midlife: Preferred and actual time use across welfare regime types

Research on Aging

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 669-690

  Ginn, Jay ^a,c   Fast, Janet ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Employment; Gender; Retirement timing; Social integration; Welfare regimes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; EMPLOYMENT; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INTEGRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLICY; RETIREMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 33750015515     PISSN: 01640275     EISSN: 15527573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0164027506291748     Document Type: Article

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