Delaying retirement : progress and challenges of active ageing in Europe, the United States and Japan / Dirk Hofäcker, Moritz Hess, Stefanie König, editors.
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...
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Table of 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.