Challenges of aging : pensions, retirement and generational justice /: pensions, retirement and generational justice. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Cornelius Torp.
• Editors: Torp, Cornelius
• Contents: Introduction: Demographic Aging as a Challenge to Modern Societies; Cornelius Torp PART I: THE MULTIPLE FACETS OF POPULATION AGING 1. The Challenges of 21st Century Demography; Sarah Harper 2. Population Aging and the Changing Economic Life Cycle: A Global Perspective; Ronald Lee PART II: PENSION SYSTEMS UNDER PRESSURE 3. Age Politics and Pension Systems Development and Reform; Julia Lynch 4. Policy Feedbacks and Pension Policy Change; R. Kent Weaver 5. Sovereign Debt Crises and Pension Reforms in Europe; Karl Hinrichs 6. The UK Pensions Crisis and Institutional Innovation: Beyond Corporatism and Neo-liberalism; Gordon L. Clark PART III: RETIREMENT AND THE CHANGING IMAGES OF OLD AGE 7. Work versus Leisure: Historical Roots of the Dissociation of Work and Later Life in Twentieth Century Europe; Josef Ehmer 8. From Retirement to Active Aging: Changing Images of 'Old Age' in the Late Twentieth and the Early Twenty-first Centuries; Stephan Lessenich 9. Delaying Retirement in Germany and Europe; Jürgen Bauknecht and Gerhard Naegele 10. Changing Retirement Transitions in Times of Paradigmatic Political Change: Towards Growing Inequalities?; Dirk Hofäcker, Moritz Hess and Elias Naumann PART IV: THE PROBLEM OF GENERATIONAL JUSTICE 11. Intergenerational Equity: Historical Reconstructions; John Macnicol 12. Generational Justice, Generational Habitus and the 'Problem' of the Baby Boomers; Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard 13. Generations in Aging Societies: Inequalities, Cleavages, Conflicts; Martin Kohli.
• Edition: 2015
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 304.61; Population aging; Retirement; Pensions
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137283177
• Related ISBNs: 9781137283160
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