Later retirement? Patterns, preferences, policies

Work-family conflict and retirement preferences.

OBJECTIVES This study investigates relationships between retirement preferences and perceived levels of work-family conflict. METHODS Using the large sample of 52-54-year-old respondents to the 1992 Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, we estimated multinomial logistic regression models of preferences for partial and full retirement within the next 10 years. We examined the association between retir...

Retirement Security and Tax Policies: A Reply

Retirement patterns from career employment.

PURPOSE This article investigates how older Americans leave their career jobs and estimates the extent of intermediate labor force activity (bridge jobs) between full-time work on a career job and complete labor-force withdrawal. DESIGN AND METHODS Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, we explored the work histories and retirement patterns of a cohort of retirees aged 51 to 61 in 1...

Polarized Preferences versus Polarizing Policies∗

Much of contemporary political debate in the United States focuses on the issue of polarization: specifically, its causal antecedents and its consequences for policymaking and political conflict. In this article, we argue that partisan preference polarization – conventionally defined as the difference in the favored policy positions of legislators from the two major parties – is not a sufficien...

Security patterns: 10 years later

Reusing time-tested solutions rather than inventing ad-hoc quick fixes is a wellknown security principle. Architectural and design patterns represent proven techniques to package knowledge from software engineering experts in a reusable format. More importantly, the solution proposed by a pattern is known to be sound because it is time-tested—its strengths, weaknesses and possible drawbacks are...