Longer working: Imposition or opportunity? Midlife attitudes to work across the 1990s

Quality in Ageing and Older Adults

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 26-35

  Ginn, Jay ^a   Arber, Sara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudes to work; Employment; Midlife; Retirement

Indexed keywords

EID: 62449121290     PISSN: 14717794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14717794200500013     Document Type: Article

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