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Retirement and Positive Aging

Partners’ adjustment to older workers’ retirement: testing the role of preretirement expectations in a 10-year panel study

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Pages 1555-1561 | Received 20 Sep 2017, Accepted 12 Jul 2018, Published online: 21 Nov 2018

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