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This timely and perceptive book addresses the issues surrounding
the adequacy of old age income for future pensioners worldwide. It
highlights how today's young people are confronted with the
simultaneous challenges of increasing employment uncertainty and
declining pension generosity - topics which are highly relevant in
contemporary welfare states. This pivotal study of the relationship
between the current labour market and future pensions explores the
ways in which public policies relating to education, employment,
and welfare work to sustain a decent living standard during
retirement. Using a diverse range of comparative studies across a
multitude of countries and nation-specific case studies, chapters
consider the influence of institutions and social, cultural, and
economic norms on public pensions and retirement saving behaviours
in young adults. Providing a valuable insight into contemporary
research findings, this innovative book will be essential reading
for students and scholars in the areas of welfare states, labour
economics, pensions, and the sociology of youth. Policymakers in
these fields will also benefit from its analysis of sustainable
pension policy development.
Globalization has been strongly shaping and transforming both
national economies and individual careers in recent decades. These
profound changes have had significant consequences for individual
careers of men and women both during and after their employment
career. This impressive new collection focuses on the effects of
the globalization process on late-midlife workers and the exit from
employment - a relationship that has up to now mostly been
neglected in social science literature on aging and employment. The
research documented within these pages poses several important
questions: * Has globalization produced fundamental shifts in
late-midlife workers' labor market participation and late careers?
* What transformations in old age career mobility can we observe? *
How are these transformations filtered by different national
institutional settings? With an impressive array of contributions,
this volume will interest students and academics involved in the
study of sociology, welfare and globalization.
This timely book investigates the growth of the early retirement
trend and its varying spread among different groups of older
workers in fourteen modern societies. It argues for a
differentiated political approach to reverse early retirement,
which relies on both pension and employability policies for older
workers.Examining the early retirement trend virtually all modern
societies have been faced with since the onset of the globalization
process in the 1970s and 1980s, this book provides a thorough
analysis of older workers? late careers and their retirement
transitions, as well as explaining why this trend has developed
differently between nations. To promote an effective reversal of
the early retirement trend, national policymakers are advised not
to concentrate their efforts exclusively on reducing the financial
incentives for an early exit still present in most national pension
systems. In addition, it is also recommended that they invest in
the employability of older workers, implying a thorough
reconsideration of the design of education and labor market
policies. Dirk Hofacker presents a unique and comprehensive
synthesis of theories describing and explaining the trend towards
early retirement, and critically discusses their comparative
advantages and shortcomings. Researchers and students of sociology,
economics, gerontology, demography and comparative welfare states
should not be without this book and policymakers and practitioners
dealing with labor market policies will find it invaluable.
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Policymakers throughout Europe are enacting policies to support
youth labour market integration. However, many young people
continue to face unemployment, job insecurity, and the subsequent
consequences. Adopting a mixed-method and multilevel perspective,
this book provides a comprehensive investigation into the
multifaceted consequences of social exclusion. Drawing on rich
pan-European comparative and quantitative data, and interviews with
young people from across Europe, this text gives a platform to the
unheard voices of young people. Contributors derive crucial new
policy recommendations and offer fresh insights into areas
including youth well-being, health, poverty, leaving the parental
home, and qualifying for social security.
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Policymakers throughout Europe are enacting policies to support
youth labour market integration. However, many young people
continue to face unemployment, job insecurity, and the subsequent
consequences. Adopting a mixed-method and multilevel perspective,
this book provides a comprehensive investigation into the
multifaceted consequences of social exclusion. Drawing on rich
pan-European comparative and quantitative data, and interviews with
young people from across Europe, this text gives a platform to the
unheard voices of young people. Contributors derive crucial new
policy recommendations and offer fresh insights into areas
including youth well-being, health, poverty, leaving the parental
home, and qualifying for social security.
Globalization has been strongly shaping and transforming both
national economies and individual careers in recent decades. These
profound changes have had significant consequences for individual
careers of men and women both during and after their employment
career. This impressive new collection focuses on the effects of
the globalization process on late-midlife workers and the exit from
employment a relationship that has up to now mostly been neglected
in social science literature on aging and employment.
The research documented within these pages poses several important
questions:
* Has globalization produced fundamental shifts in late-midlife
workers labor market participation and late careers?
* What transformations in old age career mobility can we observe?
* How are these transformations filtered by different national
institutional settings?
With an impressive array of contributions, this volume will
interest students and academics involved in the study of sociology,
welfare and globalization.
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 international experts to
analyze recent changes in pension systems. Their findings
demonstrate that there has been a fundamental transition in pension
policies and a steep increase in older workers' retirement ages and
employment rates. Yet changes in retirement behavior are not evenly
distributed across all societal strata. This raises the serious
concern that an overall rise in the retirement age will be
accompanied by the re-emergence of social inequality in the
transition from work to retirement. This innovative edited
collection will appeal to students and scholars of sociology,
economics, political science, human resources management,
gerontology and social policy, and also to policy-makers and
professionals dealing with older workers.
Given the growing importance of Eastern European countries in the
development of the EU, there is an urgent need to reconstruct the
recent dynamic developments in women's work and care in these
societies, and the socio-political determinants thereof.
Considering their specific cultural, economic and historical
development, it can be assumed that the trends and determinants of
women's labour market trajectories in CEE countries differ
significantly from those in the other European countries that have
frequently made up the basis for established theories in social and
labour market research. This being the case, can 'standard'
theoretical approaches, mostly modelled on evidence from Western
Europe, be transferred to the analysis of Eastern European
countries? This edited collection scrutinises pivotal aspects of
women's careers in Eastern Europe, providing a detailed overview of
trends and determinants of women's employment in Eastern Europe,
and reflecting critically on theoretical approaches in social and
labour market research.
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 international experts to
analyze recent changes in pension systems. Their findings
demonstrate that there has been a fundamental transition in pension
policies and a steep increase in older workers' retirement ages and
employment rates. Yet changes in retirement behavior are not evenly
distributed across all societal strata. This raises the serious
concern that an overall rise in the retirement age will be
accompanied by the re-emergence of social inequality in the
transition from work to retirement. This innovative edited
collection will appeal to students and scholars of sociology,
economics, political science, human resources management,
gerontology and social policy, and also to policy-makers and
professionals dealing with older workers.
Following the repercussions of the recent financial market crisis,
both academic as well as public interest in the phenomena of
transnationalisation, globalization and Europeanization has
continued to rise. Increasing ly, the three terms have become
central reference points for media, politicians, academics, and
policy-makers to explain social change in the modern societies of
contemporary Europe. From the Contents: Introduction and
Theoretical Background International Comparison National Case
Studies France Italy Austria Estonia Czech Republic Poland
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