Aging Populations, Globalization and the Labor Market: Comparing Late Working Life and Retirement in Modern Societies - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1849803722 ISBN 13 : 9781849803724

Editeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

This topical and timely analysis of late career and retirement within nine European societies and the USA examines how social inequality structures have developed in an era of globalization and aging populations.

For several decades, many European societies relied on pushing and luring older workers out of employment by using generous early retirement programs in order to relieve national labor markets in times of globalization. However, as this book argues, one of the major challenges facing European and Northern American societies today is their severe demographic aging, which in turn places pension systems under substantial pressure due to the rising imbalance between those claiming pensions and those contributing to the pension system. Indeed, it is observed herein that in the recent past, governments have tried to increase the labor market attachment of older employees by retrenching early retirement benefits. This study investigates how these developments have impacted on the situation of older workers and retirees in nine European societies and the USA. In particular, the book looks at how social inequalities in later life have developed in the light of recent pension reforms.

This informative book will appeal to sociologists, demographers, political scientists and economists interested in many different aspects of research including: international comparative research, globalization, labor market, welfare state, social inequality and research on aging. Researchers in the field of retirement and globalization studies will also find this book helpful, as will academics in labor market research and comparative political studies.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Professor of Sociology, University of Bamberg, Sandra Buchholz, Professor of Sociology, Otto Friedrich University Bamberg and Karin Kurz, Göttingen University, Germany

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1849803722
• ISBN 13: 9781849803724
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Éditeur: Blossfeld Hans-Peter, Buchholz Sandra, Kurz Karin
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible