Leisure activities and retirement: Do structures of inequality change in old age?

Ageing and Society

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 146-172

  Scherger, Simone ^a   Nazroo, James ^b   Higgs, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

class; leisure activities; old age; participation; retirement; social inequality

Indexed keywords

ELDERLY POPULATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; RETIREMENT; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 79451475650     PISSN: 0144686X     EISSN: 14691779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X10000577     Document Type: Article

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