Why Life Gets Better After Age 50, for Some: Mental Well-Being and the Social Norm of Work
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Keywords
mental well-being; social norm of work; retirement institution;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- J60 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - General
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGE-2025-01-13 (Economics of Ageing)
- NEP-HAP-2025-01-13 (Economics of Happiness)
- NEP-HEA-2025-01-13 (Health Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2025-01-13 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LTV-2025-01-13 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
- NEP-SOC-2025-01-13 (Social Norms and Social Capital)
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