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Shih, Shiauping Rosa.

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Private lives within public constraints: Retirement processes in contemporary Taiwan.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Private lives within public constraints: Retirement processes in contemporary Taiwan./
Author:	Shih, Shiauping Rosa.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1997,
Description:	187 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 59-02, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International59-02A.
Subject:	Demographics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9732184
ISBN:	9780591416947

Private lives within public constraints: Retirement processes in contemporary Taiwan.
Shih, Shiauping Rosa.

Private lives within public constraints: Retirement processes in contemporary Taiwan. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1997 - 187 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 59-02, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 1997.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The growing concern over retirement in contemporary societies has stimulated the attention of researchers from many disciplines. However, retirement studies in newly industrialized countries are relatively rare. Recent developments in the socioeconomic and demographic conditions of these countries strongly suggest that retirement in these societies will soon become critically important. This research uses government reports and survey data to examine ways in which retirement behavior is influenced by variations in familial, socioeconomic and policy conditions in Taiwan. I also examine focus group transcripts to shed light on the familial context of farmers' retirement. The theoretical framework advances existing research on retirement by attending to issues related to individuals' day-to-day life, as well as to economic opportunities and constraints for retirement. Retirement is defined as being out of the labor force for more than 12 months, because very few workers re-entered the labor force after they had been away for that long. Using this definition, I find that age, occupation, pension status are significantly related to retirement decisions of both sexes. Given what has been found in the retirement literature in the U.S., this study shows that many aspects of retirement processes in Taiwan are strikingly similar to those in the U.S. However, unlike workers in the U.S., Taiwanese employees who are entitled to a pension spend similar numbers of years working as those who have no pension. Although studies find that financial support from adult children to parents, as indicated by the level of education among children, are related to less work and more leisure for elderly parents in Taiwan, these studies are based primarily on the experiences of elderly persons who are over the "normal" retirement age. I argue in this dissertation that it is necessary to examine transfers over the course of individuals' lives to reveal the full effect of intergenerational transfers on retirement decisions. My results show that financial transfers from offspring are largely unrelated to the retirement of non-farm workers. When intergenerational transfers do enter into the retirement decision of aging parents, it is the "burden" consideration caused by raising children that drives the decision-making process.

ISBN: 9780591416947Subjects--Topical Terms:

3540640
Demographics.
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China

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