title: Frontiers of research on work and retirement.
abstract: The shifting boundary between work and retirement and the always-emergent features of retirement practice create a wide opportunity for scholarship and research. After an overview of the scope of retirement research, this article articulates 4 areas that deserve special attention in the present historical circumstance: studies of the form and timing of retirement exits, the labor market for older workers, the quality of pensions, and the experience of retired life. The field should be wary of prescribing regimes of behavior for late careers and retirement that many people are unsuited to fulfill.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology and Gerontology Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 66045, USA. dekerdt@ku.edu
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Ekerdt
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology; D012107:Research Design; D012179:Retirement; D012648:Self Care / Q000379:methods; D012938:Social Perception; D012944:Social Support