Time for Retirement: Comparative Studies of Early Exit from the Labor Force

Time for Retirement: Comparative Studies of Early Exit from the Labor Force

by Martin Rein (Editor), Martin Kohli (Editor), Anne - Marie Guillemard (Editor), HermanvanGunsteren (Editor)

Synopsis

In all Western countries, people are leaving work earlier than ever before - at a time when their life expectancy keeps increasing. How has this paradoxical process been brought about? What is the impact of labour markets and social policy? And what will be the effect of this massive lengthening of retirement? Time for Retirement addresses the 'aging of society' and the restructuring of the life course in terms of the changing relationship between work and reitrement. Detailed information based on the retirement policies of seven countries provides the basis for a comparative analysis aimed at assessing the range of possible political responses to these changes. The editors and contributors are among the leading social scientists in the field of life-course studies, aging, and social policy.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 412
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 29 Nov 1991

ISBN 10: 0521400538
ISBN 13: 9780521400534