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
Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xxiii
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- Dirk Hofäcker, Jonas Radl
Pages 1-21
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- Stefanie König, Moritz Hess, Dirk Hofäcker
Pages 23-51
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- Sonia Bertolini, Nicola De Luigi, Barbara Giullari, Valentina Goglio, Roberto Rizza, Federica Santangelo
Pages 97-122
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- Elisa Chuliá, Luis Garrido, Jonas Radl
Pages 123-146
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- Maria Fleischmann, Ferry Koster
Pages 171-193
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- Lisa Schmidthuber, Heike Schröder, Edmund Panzenböck
Pages 195-219
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- Masa Higo, Heike Schröder, Atsuhiro Yamada
Pages 241-268
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- Stefanie König, Julia Schilling
Pages 291-313
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- Stefanie König, Gabriella Sjögren Lindquist
Pages 315-335
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- Moritz Hess, Stefanie König, Dirk Hofäcker
Pages 363-378
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Back Matter
Pages 379-396
About this book
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.
Keywords
- Pensions
- Social Inequality
- International comparison
- Labour market policy
- EU
- USA
- Japan
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
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University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
Dirk Hofäcker
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Institute of Gerontology at the Technical University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
Moritz Hess
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Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Stefanie König
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.