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Retirement Timing and Post-retirement Employment in Taiwan

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Employment, Retirement and Lifestyle in Aging East Asia

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Using a unique data from the Taiwan Panel Study of Family Dynamics survey, which started in 1999, this chapter analyzes the retirement timing decisions for those who are eligible for voluntary retirement; it focuses on the effects of family support and economic resources. It is found that men’s probability of transition into retirement (or pension) is higher than that of women, probably because men are more likely to have a continuous work trajectory and thus hence a higher chance of voluntary retirement or pension receipt than women. The basic statistics for post-retirement working status reveal that, relative to women, men are more likely to engage in full-time or part-time employment after retirement. This might be attributed to the different gender roles of men and women.

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Yu, RR., Tsai, MC. (2021). Retirement Timing and Post-retirement Employment in Taiwan. In: Ma, X. (eds) Employment, Retirement and Lifestyle in Aging East Asia. Social Policy and Development Studies in East Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0554-3_11

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