Description: Aging Populations, Globalization and the Labor MarketComparing Late Working Life and Retirement in Modern Societies Author(s): Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Sandra Buchholz, Karin Kurz Format: Hardback Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd ISBN-13: 9781849803724, 978-1849803724 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.
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Book Title: Aging Populations, Globalization and the Labor Market
Number of Pages: 360 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Aging Populations, Globalization and the Labor Market: Comparing Late Working Life and Retirement in Modern Societies
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing LTD
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: Economics, Finance
Item Height: 234 mm
Type: Textbook
Author: Karin Kurz, Sandra Buchholz, Hans-Peter Blossfeld
Subject Area: Human Biology
Item Width: 156 mm
Format: Hardcover
