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The late shift: How retirement affects civic participation and well-being
van den Bogaard, L.B.D.
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2016
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van den Bogaard, L. B. D. (2016). The late shift: How retirement affects civic participation and
well-being.
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The late shift
How retirement af
fects civic participation and well-being
Levi van den Bogaar
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How does retirement influence people’s lives? Is it good or bad for their well-being? What do they do after retiring? And what factors shape these outcomes of retirement? These questions are of enduring importance with the demographic aging process that is underway and will continue well into the 21st century in many societies. While a significant body of literature has examined effects of retirement, studies have primarily focused on outcomes of psychological well-being, and have neglected the heterogeneous nature of the retirement transition and thus how outcomes of retirement may differ across people. The primary aims of this dissertation are to provide a broad picture of how retirement affects people’s lives by concentrating on their civic activities as well as their well-being, and to examine the heterogeneity that exists in effects of retirement, mainly by taking into account important features of the job that people held prior to retirement.
Levi van den Bogaard obtained his BSc and MSc in Sociology from Tilburg University. For his master’s thesis, he was awarded the prize for best thesis by the Dutch Sociological Society. The research for this dissertation was conducted at both Tilburg University and the University of Amsterdam. As of 2015, he works as a teacher and post-doctoral researcher for the Sociology department of the University of Amsterdam and the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute in The Hague.
