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Becoming an Entrepreneur after Retirement: Results from a Longitudinal Study in the Netherlands

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Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment and Retirement

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Self-employment and entrepreneurship among older age groups is rising (Wang, Zhan, Liu and Shultz 2008). This trend seems related to a broader development in older workers work-retirement and life-cycle career choices. Considerable research has established that retirement can be characterised as a process which can take multiple forms (Beehr and Bennett 2007). Many older adults engage in some form of transitional employment (so-called bridge jobs) between their career employment and complete labour force withdrawal, combining earnings and the receipt of retirement benefits. The importance of these bridge jobs, including self-employment, is likely to increase in the future (Cahill, Giandrea and Quinn 2013).

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  1. Hanna van Solinge
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    Natalie Sappleton

  2. Institute for Tourism Studies, China

    Fernando Lourenço

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van Solinge, H. (2015). Becoming an Entrepreneur after Retirement: Results from a Longitudinal Study in the Netherlands. In: Sappleton, N., Lourenço, F. (eds) Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment and Retirement. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137398390_5

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