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Clocking out : Temporal patterning of retirement
Shin-Kap Han,Phyllis Moen +1 more
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This article examined the temporal patterning of retirement and found that changes over the past few decades undermined the regularity in retirement timing that was a product of the convergence of diverse institutional features, anchored by a large core of men on traditional career tracks.Abstract:
This article draws on life history data of the cohorts of recent US retirees to examine the temporal patterning of retirement Three major dimensions‐‐historical context, social heterogeneity, and, most important, biographical pacing, measured by cohort, gender, and career pathway, respectively‐‐operate simultaneously, yet unevenly, to affect various aspects of the retirement process Findings suggest that changes over the past few decades have undermined the regularity in retirement timing that was a product of the convergence of diverse institutional features, anchored by a large core of men on traditional career tracks Focusing on retirement, our model underscores the multiplex nature of the temporal structuring of the life courseread more
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Sequence Analysis and Optimal Matching Methods in Sociology Review and Prospect
Andrew Abbott,Angela Tsay +1 more
TL;DR: The authors reviewed all known studies applying optimal matching or alignment (OM) techniques to social science sequence data and concluded that OM techniques have produced interesting results in a wide variety of areas, the most promising being studies of careers and of sequentially organized cultural artifacts.
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New Life for Old Ideas: The "Second Wave" of Sequence Analysis Bringing the "Course" Back Into the Life Course:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw attention to the most recent and promising developments of sequence analysis in life course sociology, and demonstrate selected advances with synthetic example data, and show how they conceptually contribute to life course research.
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Retirement Patterns From Career Employment
TL;DR: It is found that a majority of older Americans with career jobs retire gradually, in stages, rather than all at once, and many are already doing so by moving to bridge jobs after leaving their career employment.
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Narrative explanation: an alternative to variable-centered explanation?
TL;DR: In this paper, the nature of narrative explanations is explored as an alternative to the better established variable-centered explanations, where narratives are conceived as di-graphs where the nodes are states of the world and the arcs are actions (causes).
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