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Does Bridge Employment Mitigate or Exacerbate Inequalities Later in Life?
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Stress Research Institute. Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Work and organizational psychology.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4275-5378
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Number of Authors: 52024 (English)In: Work, Aging and Retirement, ISSN 2054-4642, E-ISSN 2054-4650, Vol. 10, no 2, p. 77-99Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Most older Americans with career employment change jobs at least once before retiring from the labor market. Much is known about the prevalence and determinants of these bridge jobs, yet relatively little is known about the implications of such job changes—compared to direct exits from a career job—upon economic disparities in later life. In this article, we use 26 years of longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study to document the various pathways that older Americans take when exiting the labor force, and examine how bridge employment affects nonhousing wealth and total wealth, including the present discounted value of Social Security benefits. We find that gradual retirement in the form of bridge employment neither exacerbates nor mitigates wealth inequalities among Americans who hold career jobs later in life. That said, we do find some evidence that wealth inequalities grow among the subset of older career workers who transition from career employment to bridge employment at older ages. One policy implication of our article is that it provides evidence that might allay concerns about the potential for disparate financial impacts associated with the gradual retirement process. 

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Oxford University Press, 2024. Vol. 10, no 2, p. 77-99
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bridge employment, inequality
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Work Sciences Psychology
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Psychology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-210287DOI: 10.1093/workar/waac020ISI: 000861514300001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85189477408OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-210287DiVA, id: diva2:1702733
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This work was supported by the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond [grant number P18-0463:1].

Available from: 2022-10-11 Created: 2022-10-11 Last updated: 2024-04-24Bibliographically approved

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