Retirement timing and social stratification : a comparative study of labor market exit and age norms in Western Europe / Jonas Radl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Radl, Jonas, author.

Series:

Versita discipline : sociology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Retirement age--Europe, Western.

Retirement age.

Labor market--Europe, Western.

Labor market.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Versita, [2013]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Theoretical approaches to retirement and early exit from work

3. Social variability in retirement behaviour: an analytical framework

4. Too old to work, or too young to retire? The pervasiveness of age norms in Western Europe societies

5. Differential retirement behaviour in Western Europe: social stratification and cross-national diversity

6. Retirement timing and social stratification in Spain

7. Retirement timing and social stratification in Germany

8. Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-324) and index.

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ISBN:

3-11-039924-5

OCLC:

1013956368