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Encore Careers

Encore Careers is a career stage construct denoting a later-life professional transition characterized by a shift from primary career roles to socially purposeful work that leverages accumulated skills, experience, and values toward meaningful contribution in second-half-of-life vocational pursuits.

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Publications

185

Citations

9

Authors

4

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

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Publications

5

Encore: Finding Work That Matters In The Second Half Of Life

Marc Marc · 2007 · 75 citations

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A job, a dream or a trap? Multiple meanings for encore careers

Mary Simpson, Margaret Richardson, Theodore E. Zorn · Work Employment and Society · 2012 · 32 citations

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The Social-Purpose Encore Career: Baby Boomers, Civic Engagement, and the Next Stage of Work

Marc Freedman · 2006 · 29 citations

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Older Workers’ Learning Within Organizations: Issues and Challenges

Brian Findsen · Educational Gerontology · 2015 · 25 citations

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Motivations and enculturation of older students returning to a traditional university

Rodney Parks, Brett Evans, Yvette Q. Getch · New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development · 2013 · 24 citations

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Authors

9

  1. MR
    Margaret Richardson

    University of Waikato, New Zealand

    1 publications · 32 citations

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  2. TE
    Theodore E. Zorn

    University of Waikato, New Zealand

    1 publications · 32 citations

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  3. BF
    Brian Findsen

    University of Waikato, New Zealand

    1 publications · 25 citations

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  4. BE
    Brett Evans

    Elon University, United States

    1 publications · 24 citations

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  5. YQ
    Yvette Q. Getch

    University of Georgia, United States

    1 publications · 24 citations

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Institutions

4

  1. University of Waikato

    Hamilton, New Zealand

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    89 citations

  2. Western Kentucky University

    Bowling Green, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    24 citations

  3. Elon University

    Elon, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    48 citations

  4. Massey University

    Palmerston North, New Zealand

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    32 citations

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Venues

  1. Educational Gerontology

    1 publications · 25 citations

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  3. Work Employment and Society

    WES · 1 publications · 32 citations

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