Date: 2014
Type: Book
Retirement timing and social stratification : a comparative study of labor market exit and age norms in Western Europe
Warschau : Berlin ; De Gruyter, 2014
RADL, Jonas, Retirement timing and social stratification : a comparative study of labor market exit and age norms in Western Europe, Warschau : Berlin ; De Gruyter, 2014
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/61964
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
The book addresses a timely issue that attracts both researchers and policy-makers: the factors explaining early retirement. The study uses cutting-edge methodology to produce fresh empirical evidence that sheds a new light on the processes of leaving work and challenges occasionally the conventional wisdom on the cross-national differences in retirement ages.
Table of Contents:
-- List of Figures
-- List of Tables
-- Acknowledgments
-- Abstract
-- Abbreviations
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 European Societies
5. Differential Retirement Behavior 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
-- References
-- Index
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/61964
Full-text via DOI: 10.2478/9788376560410
ISBN: 9788376560410; 9783110399240; 9788376560403
Publisher: De Gruyter
Initial version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/14714
Version: Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2010