A cohort and gender comparison of mid-life characteristics associated with residential mobility upon retirement

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Many of the ways to integrate older people into our communities are contingent upon whether they will age-in-place in their pre-retirement homes, make local moves within the community, or move to another community. As a result, policy analysts need to know more about residential mobility upon retirement, and how it may be changing with time. Using a life course theoretical perspective, this study compares how mid-life characteristics are related to residential mobility upon retirement for two different cohorts of Canadian men a generation apart, and compares men and women in the recent cohort. The data are from the Ontario Longitudinal Study of Aging (1959-1990) and the longitudinal portion of the National Population Health Survey (1994-1998). The results from the multi-variate proportional hazards models indicate that home ownership remains an important determinant of residential mobility shortly after retirement for both men and women. However, relationships between residential mobility and the presence of children, family contact, occupation, education, and age at retirement which were found for the earlier cohort of men, were not found for the more recently retired men or women. Marital status and income were found to have a relationship with residential mobility for the recently retired women, but not for men. More differences were found between the generations of men shortly after retirement, than between recently retired men and women within the same generation.