Changing tracks : Studies on life after early retirement in the Netherlands

The main objective of this PhD thesis is to gain more insight into the consequences of retirement for older workers and their spouses in the Netherlands. The central question is how employees and their spouses experience retirement in terms of it being a voluntary or involuntary transition, why adjustment to retirement is much more difficult and has more negative implications (in terms of health and well-being) in some cases than in others, and which factors are at play. To answer these questions, multi-actor panel data were collected about just under 800 older workers who left paid employment... Mehr ...