Avoiding Retirement in Chile: Extending Working Lives in an Uncertain and Precarious Context [Hardcover]

Introduction

1. Extended Working Lives: A Growing Phenomenon in Current Aging Populations

2. Research Objectives, Data and Methods

3. Adulthood Trajectories Across Different Life Domains and Diversity of Labor Force Statuses in Old Age

4. Changing Perceptions on Definitive Labor Market Exit

5. Perceptions of Retirement and Caregiving, Training, and Health Biographies

6. Retirement Perceptions in a Liberal Institutional Regime

7. Extensive Precarity and Uncertainty Tolerance Redefining the Retirement Transition

8. Policy Innovations for Extended Working Lives in Uncertain and Precarious Contexts

Drawing on life-course, gender, and welfare regime theories, and relying on primary longitudinal qualitative data and primary longitudinal quantitative data, this book?critically examines the generalizability of traditional age norms involving the transition to retirement, within a persistently uncertain and precarious setting.

As people live longer and populations age around the world, the norms surrounding retirement are shifting dramatically. In this groundbreaking book, Cabib explores the complexities of retirement transitions in Chile, a Latin American country with growing labor force participation in older age and a weak pension system. Drawing on life-course, gender, and welfare regime theories,?Avoiding Retirement?reveals that permanent and predictable retirement is becoming increasingly?unexpected?and?unaffordable?for older men and women. Against the backdrop of rapid population aging and widespread economic insecurity across Latin America, this book offers novel insights into evolving patterns of work in later life and provides timely policy recommendations relevant to Latin America and beyond.

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