eprintid: 3742
rev_number: 5
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datestamp: 2021-11-03 12:54:01
lastmod: 2021-11-03 12:54:01
status_changed: 2021-11-03 12:54:01
type: thesis
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sword_depositor: 1
creators_name: Herber, Meik
creators_id: S4481526
creators_email: meikherber@gmx.de
title: Changes in intergenerational support between parents and children after parental retirement
ispublished: unpub
full_text_status: public
abstract: In empirical studies on predictors of intergenerational support, retirement status has often been neglected. This study aims to improve the understanding of support relationships be-tween parents and children by examining the influence of retirement with differentiations by gender and retirement duration. Based on previous theoretical reasonings and empirical find-ings, hypotheses on retirement’s impact on changes in grandparenting and the exchange of other instrumental and financial support are derived and tested with fixed effects regressions on panel data of 7 waves from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. Results are diverse. Fathers provide more instrumental support while mothers grandparent less, receive more instrumental support and provide more and receive less financial support after retirement. Intergenerational support exchanges tend to decline within a retirement du-rations of 10 years and changes over time are more pronounced for mothers than fathers. Grandparenting and downward instrumental support decline from being stronger in the first retirement years and weaker in later ones than before retirement. Upward financial support is likewise rarer in later stages of retirement. Mothers show a stronger decline of grandpar-enting over time than fathers, receive increasingly more instrumental support with retirement duration and provide more financial support throughout the whole observed retirement du-ration than before retirement. The utilization of retirement as a covariate in future research on intergenerational support relations and implication for intergenerational relations in an ageing Europe are discussed.
date: 2021
pages: 47
thesis_type: master
degree_programme: POPST
tutors_name: Mulder, C.H.
tutors_organization: Fac. Ruimtelijke wetenschappen, Basiseenheid Demografie
tutors_email: C.H.Mulder@rug.nl
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keywords_local: intergenerational solidarity
keywords_local: intergenerational support
keywords_local: Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
keywords_local: longitudinal data
language_iso: en
agreed_repository: yes
date_issued: 2021-11-03
citation:   Herber, Meik  (2021) Changes in intergenerational support between parents and children after parental retirement.  Master thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3742/1/MA_7320469_Herber_Meik.pdf