Overview
- Provides a much-needed international and comparative perspective on pensions and ageing
- Takes the discussion beyond push and pull factors to highlight the complexity of retirement decisions
- Considers macro, micro and meso drivers to innovative effect
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To a backdrop of ageing societies, pension crises and labour market reforms, this book investigates how the policy shift from early retirement to active ageing has affected individual retirement behaviour. Focusing on eleven European countries, the United States and Japan, it brings together leading international experts to analyze recent changes in pension systems. Their findings demonstrate that there has been a fundamental transition in pension policies and a steep increase in older workers’ retirement ages and employment rates. Yet changes in retirement behavior are not evenly distributed across all societal strata. This raises the serious concern that an overall rise in the retirement age will be accompanied by the re-emergence of social inequality in the transition from work to retirement. This innovative edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of sociology, economics, political science, human resources management, gerontology and social policy, and also to policy-makers and professionals dealing with older workers.
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Reviews
“This unique book offers an excellent and comprehensive overview of recent pension and labor market reforms and the way in which they have affected retirement transitions of older workers in thirteen countries. The book not only provides an impressive synthesis of the state of the art in the discussion about ‘Active Ageing’, but also proposes a novel and innovative theoretical framework to scientifically analyse retirement transitions under changing contextual conditions. This is an indispensable text for scientist, students, and practitioners in the fields of pension and retirement research.” (Gerd Naegele, Director, Institute of Gerontology, TU Dortmund University, Germany)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dirk Hofäcker is Professor of Quantitative Research Methods at the Institute for Social Policy and Social Work, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
Moritz Hess is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institute of Gerontology, University of Dortmund, Germany.
Stefanie König is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Moritz Hess is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institute of Gerontology, University of Dortmund, Germany.
Stefanie König is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Delaying Retirement
Book Subtitle: Progress and Challenges of Active Ageing in Europe, the United States and Japan
Editors: Dirk Hofäcker, Moritz Hess, Stefanie König
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56697-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56696-6Published: 18 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-84969-7Published: 29 July 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56697-3Published: 14 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 385
Number of Illustrations: 46 b/w illustrations
Topics: Aging, Sociology of Work, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social Policy, Social Policy, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy