Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI-KNAW), The Hague, the Netherlands.
Department of Sociology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Res Aging. 2019 Dec;41(10):936-960. doi: 10.1177/0164027519873537.
This study goes beyond a purely financial perspective to explain why single older workers prefer to retire later than their partnered counterparts. We aim to show how the work (i.e., its social meaning) and home domain (i.e., spousal influence) contribute to differences in retirement preferences by relationship status. Analyses were based on multiactor data collected in 2015 among older workers in the Netherlands ( = 6,357) and (where applicable) their spouses. Results revealed that the social meaning of work differed by relationship status but not always as expected. In a mediation analysis, we found that the social meaning of work partically explained differences in retirement preferences by relationship status. We also show that single workers preferred to retire later than workers with a "pulling" spouse, earlier than workers with a "pushing" spouse, and at about the same time as workers with a neutral spouse.
这项研究超越了纯粹的财务视角，解释了为什么单身老年工人比有伴侣的老年工人更愿意延迟退休。我们旨在展示工作（即其社会意义）和家庭领域（即配偶的影响）如何通过关系状况对退休偏好的差异产生影响。分析基于 2015 年在荷兰收集的老年工人（n=6357）及其配偶的多主体数据。结果表明，工作的社会意义因关系状况而异，但并不总是符合预期。在中介分析中，我们发现工作的社会意义部分解释了关系状况对退休偏好差异的影响。我们还表明，单身工人比有“拉”配偶的工人更愿意延迟退休，比有“推”配偶的工人更早退休，与有中性配偶的工人退休时间大致相同。
