TY - JOUR
T1 - The effect of retirement on social relationships
AU - Comi, S. L.
AU - Cottini, Elena
AU - Lucifora, Claudio
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - We analyze the causal effect of retirement on individual social relationships using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. We find that retirement changes the composition of the individual's social network, inducing a substitution between weak (friends or colleagues) and strong ties (family), along with an increase in the intensity of the surviving ties, and there is no effect on the network's size. These changes in the social network's composition are associated with a higher satisfaction and stronger relationships. Interestingly, females reduce the share of friends while males that of colleagues.
AB - We analyze the causal effect of retirement on individual social relationships using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. We find that retirement changes the composition of the individual's social network, inducing a substitution between weak (friends or colleagues) and strong ties (family), along with an increase in the intensity of the surviving ties, and there is no effect on the network's size. These changes in the social network's composition are associated with a higher satisfaction and stronger relationships. Interestingly, females reduce the share of friends while males that of colleagues.
KW - ageing
KW - emotional closeness
KW - retirement
KW - social relationships
KW - ageing
KW - emotional closeness
KW - retirement
KW - social relationships
UR - https://publicatt.unicatt.it/handle/10807/196301
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U2 - 10.1515/ger-2020-0109
DO - 10.1515/ger-2020-0109
M3 - Article
SN - 1468-0475
VL - 23
SP - 275
EP - 299
JO - German Economic Review
JF - German Economic Review
IS - 2
ER -