Retirement Process Among Individuals Who Never Held a Career Job in Canada: A Story of Two Tales?

Jonathan Purenne , Université de Montréal
Yves Carriere, Université de Montréal

Many studies on retirement have focused on individuals who have had career jobs, that is a spell of employment of tens years or more. In Canada, about a third of Canadians never held such jobs. This paper compares the process of retirement between Canadians whit a history of short career with those with career jobs. We use a sample of adult aged 50+ from the 2007 General Social Survey (GSS) and classified has had a stable career if their longest spell of employment was longer then 11 years and has had an atypical career otherwise. Results show that the retirement process differ between the two groups. Individuals with stable career are more likely to retire early and are less likely to work in a bridge job before they retire. Individuals with atypical career are more likely to start a new job past age 50 and to leave the labor market involuntarily.

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 Presented in Session 200. Pensions, Social Security, and Retirement