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Retirement: Causes and Consequences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2008

John Bond
Affiliation:
Health Care Research Unit, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
John McCallum
Affiliation:
The Australian National University, Canberra
Victor Marshall
Affiliation:
Department of Behavioural Science, The University of Toronto

Abstract

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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