A note on retirement and mortality

Houlding, Sybil

doi:10.4324/9780429443213-10

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“…Parallel to this, informal workers who are not likely to plan for their retirement would do so for cultural reasons. The reality is that people are not likely to spend time planning about retirement because thinking about retirement could mean closely thinking about one's death (Houlding, 2018;Valentish, 2021). This is a critical source of concern in the retirement process considering that the planning for retirement and the expectations of death are important stages individuals must go through in their lives.…”

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From Social Protection to Personal Protection: Implications for an Integrated Framework of Retirement Planning for Informal Workers in Ghana

Oteng¹,

Manful

Akuoko

2022

Glob Soc Welf

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Without a mandatory retirement age, many informal workers are exploring diverse ways of ensuring their well-being as they age. This exploratory study focuses on the retirement plans of workers in Ghana’s informal sector to inform interventions to ensure their well-being. Findings from 35 in-depth interviews among self-employed informal workers in Adum-Kumasi, the largest hub of Ghana’s informal work, highlight that retirement planning is centred on self-protection through investment in economic and non-economic activities. The study contributes to the discourse on extending social protection coverage to informal work settings. It further recommends an integrated policy framework for social protection to cover a broad range of domains that are important for the well-being of informal workers in later life.

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confidence: 99%