Health subjectivities and labor market participation: Pessimism and older workers' attitudes and narratives around retirement in the United Kingdom

Research on Aging

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 529-550

  Brown, Patrick ^a   Vickerstaff, Sarah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

health pessimism; labor market participation; phenomenology; retirement; subjective experience

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960829646     PISSN: 01640275     EISSN: 15527573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0164027511410249     Document Type: Article

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