Research Catalog

Title

Older workers in a globalizing world : an international comparison of retirement and late-career patterns in Western industrialized countries / D. Hofäcker.

Author

Hofäcker, Dirk

Publication

Cheltenham, U.K. ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, c2010.

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Description

xi, 321 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"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." "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."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Late careers under globalization : an international comparison of retirement and late-career patterns among older workers in Western industrialized countries.

Subject

• Berufslaufbahn
• Globalisierung
• Älterer Arbeitnehmer
• Older people > Employment > Western countries
• Post-retirement employment > Western countries
• Occupational mobility > Western countries
• Older people > Employment > Western countries > Longitudinal studies
• Post-retirement employment > Western countries > Longitudinal studies
• Occupational mobility > Western countries > Longitudinal studies
• Westliche Welt

Genre/Form

Longitudinal studies

Thesis (note)

• "Dissertation at the University of Bamberg, 2008, under the original title : 'Late careers under globalization. An international comparison of retirement and late-career patterns among older workers in Western industrialized countries.'"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-316) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction: the 'two- faced pension crisis' -- 2. State of the art in social science research -- 3. Globalization, institutional strategies and late careers -- 4. The macro-perspective: late careers and retirement in international comparison -- 5. The micro- perspective: a four-country comparison -- 6. Conclusions.

ISBN

• 9781848448179 (hardbound)
• 1848448171 (hardbound)
• 9781849803359 (e-book)
• 1849803358 (e-book)

OCLC

461279055

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library