Retirement Timing and Social Stratification

Radl Jonas

ISBN 10: 8376560409 / ISBN 13: 9788376560403

Edité par Walter de Gruyter, Incorporated, 2014

pp. 329 32 Figures. N° de réf. du vendeur 94888769

Synopsis :

The monograph disseminates the very topical issue of retirement and its timing as the key to one of the greatest challenges facing ageing societies. Postponing retirement is now almost universally regarded as indispensable in order to relieve European welfare states from the demography-related financial pressures. This seminal study, derived from a statistical analysis of a large-scale survey data, provides a thorough understanding of the micro- and macro-level determinants of retirement timing in contemporary Western Europe. The book is the first monograph to combine the analysis of the retirement attitudes with the analysis of the retirement behaviour within one research. It tackles the question as to whether early retirement can be explained by "early exit culture", triangulating life course theory with a social stratification approach. The author used a novel and innovative approach to obtain the results. The methodology includes: tobit models of proscriptive age norms; simulations of the impact of class structure on a country's average retirement age; competing risks models of different work-exit modalities; duration selection models of retirement timing.

À propos de l'auteur:

Jonas Radl, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Retirement Timing and Social Stratification
Éditeur : Walter de Gruyter, Incorporated
Date d'édition : 2014
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : New