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Delaying Retirement

Progress and Challenges of Active Ageing in Europe, the United States and Japan

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Editors:
  1. Dirk Hofäcker

    1. University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

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  2. Moritz Hess

    1. Institute of Gerontology at the Technical University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

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  3. Stefanie König

    1. Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

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  • Provides a much-needed international and comparative perspective on pensions and ageing
  • Takes the discussion beyond push and pull factors to highlight the complexity of retirement decisions
  • Considers macro, micro and meso drivers to innovative effect

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Retirement Transitions in Times of Institutional Change: Theoretical Concept

    • Dirk Hofäcker, Jonas Radl
    Pages 1-21

  3. Trends and Determinants of Retirement Transition in Europe, the USA and Japan: A Comparative Overview

    • Stefanie König, Moritz Hess, Dirk Hofäcker
    Pages 23-51

  4. Determinants of Retirement and Late Careers in Estonia

    • Marge Unt, Ellu Saar
    Pages 53-72

  5. Path Dependency Versus New Determinants of Retirement in the Czech Republic

    • Lucie Vidovićová
    Pages 73-96

  6. Retirement in a Context of Strong Institutional Uncertainty and Territorial Diversities: The Case of Italy

    • Sonia Bertolini, Nicola De Luigi, Barbara Giullari, Valentina Goglio, Roberto Rizza, Federica Santangelo
    Pages 97-122

  7. Ebb and Flow of Early Retirement: Pension Reform and Labor Market Participation of Older Workers in Spain

    • Elisa Chuliá, Luis Garrido, Jonas Radl
    Pages 123-146

  8. Germany: A Successful Reversal of Early Retirement?

    • Moritz Hess
    Pages 147-169

  9. From Early Exit to Postponing Pension: How the Dutch Polder Model Shapes Retirement

    • Maria Fleischmann, Ferry Koster
    Pages 171-193

  10. Retirement Determinants in Austria: An Aging Society but a Hesitant Policymaker!?

    • Lisa Schmidthuber, Heike Schröder, Edmund Panzenböck
    Pages 195-219

  11. Employment and Retirement of Older Workers in the UK

    • Matt Flynn, Yuxin Li
    Pages 221-240

  12. Japan: Determinants of Retirement in a Hyper-Aged Society

    • Masa Higo, Heike Schröder, Atsuhiro Yamada
    Pages 241-268

  13. The Gendered and Liberal Retirement Regime in Switzerland

    • Ignacio Madero-Cabib
    Pages 269-290

  14. The Outdistanced Vanguard: Early Retirement Policy in Denmark as an Obstacle to Progress in Active Aging

    • Stefanie König, Julia Schilling
    Pages 291-313

  15. Sweden: Steeply Rising Older Workers’ Employment Rates in a Late-Exit Country

    • Stefanie König, Gabriella Sjögren Lindquist
    Pages 315-335

  16. The Increasing Heterogeneity of Retirement in the USA: Interactions Between State, Firm, and Individual Determinants of Later-Life Labor Force Withdrawal

    • David F. Warner
    Pages 337-362

  17. Retirement Transitions Under Changing Institutional Conditions: Towards Increasing Inequalities? Comparing Evidence from 13 Countries

    • Moritz Hess, Stefanie König, Dirk Hofäcker
    Pages 363-378

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 379-396
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About this book

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. 


Reviews

“This unique book offers an excellent and comprehensive overview of recent pension and labor market reforms and the way in which they have affected retirement transitions of older workers in thirteen countries. The book not only provides an impressive synthesis of the state of the art in the discussion about ‘Active Ageing’, but also proposes a novel and innovative theoretical framework to scientifically analyse retirement transitions under changing contextual conditions.  This is an indispensable text for scientist, students, and practitioners in the fields of pension and retirement research.” (Gerd Naegele, Director, Institute of Gerontology, TU Dortmund University, Germany)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

    Dirk Hofäcker

  • Institute of Gerontology at the Technical University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

    Moritz Hess

  • Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Stefanie König

About the editors

Dirk Hofäcker is Professor of Quantitative Research Methods at the Institute for Social Policy and Social Work, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. 


Moritz Hess is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institute of Gerontology, University of Dortmund, Germany. 


Stefanie König is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. 



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