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A Multilevel Model of Early Retirement Decisions among Autoworkers in Plants with Different Futures

Melissa A. Hardy

Florida State University

Lawrence Hazelrigg

Florida State University

During the period of their 1986-1989 General Motors (GM)-United Auto Workers (UAW) contract, about 17% of all GM autoworkers who were eligible to elect early retirement did so. Those who did were distinctive in theoretically expected ways, with expectations defined by individual characteristics such as age, physical health, and pension wealth. But some of the workers were employed in plants that GM had decided to abandon. Did that difference in organizational context make a difference in individual workers’ decisions about early retirement? Would workers who chose to take early retirement and who were employed in plants scheduled to close have made the same decision had their plants not been selected for closure? If the rate of early retirement was higher in plants scheduled to close, and it was, how did that difference relate to the process by which individual workers reached their decisions? These are some of the questions asked and answered through multilevel analyses of data from a probability sample of GM’s autoworkers. These analyses generate findings not detected in single-level analyses of the same data.

Research on Aging, Vol. 21, No. 2, 275-303 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/0164027599212006
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