Avoiding Retirement in Chile - Extending Working Lives in an Uncertain and Precarious Context

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Ignacio Cabib is Interdisciplinary Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Health at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile. His main academic interests are the life-course approach, health and social inequalities in old age, cross-national studies, extended working lives, and research methods. Thanks to the support of national and international networks, over the past 15 years he has conducted an agenda that aims to understand how employment, family, and health disadvantages and advantages over the life-course impact multiple later-life inequalities across countries with different welfare regime orientations.

Product details

• Authors: Ignacio Cabib, Ignacio (Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Cabib
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032777542
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3277754-2
• No. of pages: 177
• Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, Politics & government, Regional Studies, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, Hispanic & Latino Studies