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Bridge Employment: Transitions from Career Employment to Retirement and Beyond

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The last quarter of the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first ushered in far-reaching, rapid change in terms of socio-demographic factors, economic circumstances, and working conditions on a scale never before witnessed in history. In particular, the sustained rise in life expectancy over recent decades and the steep fall in the birth rate have accelerated the process of population ageing, generating powerful, worldwide effects (Lutz et al. 2008). While there are still significant differences between the more developed, less developed, and least developed countries (United Nations 2013), the gap between them is rapidly closing (Bongaarts 2004), and in the context of these global demographic shifts, employee retirement has become an important, indeed a core, element of political and socio-economic discourse and a key factor in the area of human resource management (HRM) (Wang and Shi 2014). The goal is to maintain older workers at work, extend working life, and avoid mass exodus from the labour market.

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Alcover, CM. (2017). Bridge Employment: Transitions from Career Employment to Retirement and Beyond. In: Parry, E., McCarthy, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Age Diversity and Work. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46781-2_10

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