Delaying retirement : progress and challenges of active ageing in Europe, the United States and Japan /: progress and challenges of active ageing in Europe, the United States and Japan. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Dirk Hofäcker, Moritz Hess, Stefanie König, editors.
• Editors: Hofäcker, Dirk; Hess, Moritz; König, Stefanie
• Contents: Chapter 1. Retirement Transitions in Times of Institutional Change -- Theoretical Concept; Dirk Hofäcker and Jonas Radl -- Chapter 2. Trends and Determinants of Retirement Transition in Europe, the United States and Japan: A Comparative Overview; Stefanie König, Moritz Hess, and Dirk Hofäcker -- Chapter 3. Determinants of retirement and late career in Estonia; Marge Unt and Ellu Saar -- Chapter 4. Path dependency versus new determinants of retirement in the Czech Republic; Lucie Vidovićová -- Chapter 5. Retirement in a context of strong institutional uncertainty and territorial diversities: The case of Italy; Sonia Bertolini, Nicola De Luigi, Barbara Giullari, Valentina Goglio, Roberto Rizza, and Federica Santangelo -- Chapter 6. Flow and ebb of early retirement: Pension reform and labor market participation of older workers in Spain; Elisa Chuliá, Luis Garrido, and Jonas Radl -- Chapter 7. Germany: A Successful Reversal of Early Retirement?; Moritz Hess -- Chapter 8. From early exit to postponing pension: How the Dutch polder model shapes retirement; Maria Fleischmann and Ferry Koster -- Chapter 9. Retirement determinants in Austria: An aging society but a hesitant policymaker; Lisa Schmidthuber, Heike Schröder, and Edmund Panzenböck -- Chapter 10. Employment and retirement of older workers in the UK; Matt Flynn and Yuxin Li -- Chapter 11. Japan: Determinants of retirement in a hyper-aged society; Masa Higo, Heike Schröder and Atsuhiro Yamada -- Chapter 12. The gendered and liberal retirement regime in Switzerland; Ignacio Madero-Cabib -- Chapter 13. The outdistanced vanguard: Early retirement policy in Denmark as an obstacle to progress in active aging; Stefanie König and Julia Schilling -- Chapter 14. Sweden: Steeply rising older workers' employment rates in a late-exit country; Stefanie König and Gabriella Sjögren Lindquist -- Chapter 15. Increasing Heterogeneity of Retirement in the United States: Interactions Between State, Firm, and Individual Determinants of Later-Life Labor Force Withdrawal; David F. Warner -- Chapter 16. Retirement Transitions under Changing Institutional Conditions: Towards Increasing Inequalities? Comparing evidence from 13 countries; Moritz Hess, Stefanie König, and Dirk Hofäcker.
• Publisher Details: London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.3/8; 300; Social sciences; Retirement age; Retirement income; Retirement -- Economic aspects; Retirement -- Sociological aspects; Older people -- Employment; Welfare economics; Social policy; Aging; Social structure; Equality; Industrial sociology; Aging; Equality; Industrial sociology; Social policy; Social sciences; Social structure; Welfare economics; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Reference; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Political Science -- Public Policy -- Social Policy; Business & Economics -- Economics -- Theory; Sociology: work & labour; Social issues & processes; Political economy; Central government policies; Economic theory & philosophy; Aging_xResearch; Family & Relationships -- Aging; Age groups: the elderly; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137566973; 1137566973
• Related ISBNs: 1137566965; 9781137566966
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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