Over the last three decades, the sports research community has demonstrated a growing interest in the process of sport retirement. The majority of the sport retirement research has focused on male professional athletes, traditionally those in the popular spectator sports. Yet, t…
This dissertation is comprised of two chapters that examine labor supply and health in the developing world. The first chapter focuses on the labor supply of older people in Indonesia. In developed countries, most workers depend on public and private pension systems to smooth th…
Unexpected increases in a mutual fund's risk level could cause significant financial loss to an investor relying on that fund's risk consistency. The purpose of this study was to determine if domestic, A-share, large capitalization value income, and domestic, A-share, large capi…
The social and economic experiences of older people in Scotland over the past two centuries provides a particularised lens through which larger themes of change and adaptation may be analysed. Older age cohorts are examined as specific identity groups within the context of a soc…
Much of the world has begun to face a crisis of rapid demographic aging. Societies around the world have enjoyed steadily increasing life expectancies for centuries. Declining fertility and increasing longevity have caused old-age dependency—the ratio of those above the age of 6…