[Retirement from work; consequences for well-being. A longitudinal analysis]

Both empirical research and gerontological theories lead to diverging opinions on the effects of finishing the labour process on well-being. On the basis of longitudinal data this paper concludes that the well-being of older persons who retired from the job in the period 1976-1982 did not clearly decrease more than persons who continued working in that period of time. This result still holds in a regression-analysis in which a number of relevant factors are kept constant.