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Bridge jobs refer to temporary positions for transitions in working life. With a growing share of older people in the population, bridge jobs, also called bridge employment, are useful concepts to understand the process between a full-time career to complete retirement. Bridge jobs include a variety of setups: continued salaried work after retirement, full or part-time, for the same employer as before; working permanently or temporarily for a new employer; self-employed or entrepreneur; and reentry or unretirement.
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With a new composition of the population, where the proportion of older adults has increased, the issue of a prolonged working life has been raised. The interest for a prolonged working life can be found on the societal as well as on the individual level. On the societal level, discussions mainly concern the pension systems and how to guarantee the welfare of older people in the immediate future. On the individual level, there...
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Bjursell, C., Björklund Carlstedt, A. (2019). Bridge Jobs. In: Gu, D., Dupre, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_180-1
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