Regulating Employment and Welfare - Company and National Policies of Labour Force Participation at the End of Worklife in Industrial Countries

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 The Dialectics of Work and Welfare / Vroom, Bert de / Naschold, Frieder -- 2 Early Retirement: Stability, Reversal, or Redefinition / Jacobs, Klaus / Rein, Martin -- 3 The Netherlands: The Loreley-Effect of Early Exit / Trommel, Willem / Vroom, Bert de -- 4 Germany: The Concerted Transition from Work to Welfare / Naschold, Frieder / Oppen, Maria / Peinemann, Holger / Rosenow, Joachim -- 5 Sweden: Policy Dilemmas of the Changing Age Structure in a 'Work Society' / Olofsson, Gunnar / Petersson, Jan -- 6 Japan: Shukko, Teinen and Re-Employment / Kimura, Takeshi / Takagi, Ikuro / Oka, Masato / Omori, Maki -- 7 Former East Germany: From Plan to Market and the Dramatic Effect on Exit / Schuster, Martina / Stieler, Brigitte -- 8 Great Britain: Firm Policy, State Policy and the Employment of Older Workers / Casey, Bernard / Wood, Stephen -- 9 The United States: Employer Policies for Discouraging Work by Older People / Hutchens, Robert -- 10 Regulating Employment and Retirement: An International Comparison between Firms and Countries / Naschold, Frieder / Vroom, Bert de / Casey, Bernard -- Contributors

Product details

• Assisted by: DeVroom (Editor), DeVroom (Editor), B DeVroom (Editor), B. Devroom (Editor), Friede Naschold (Editor), Frieder Naschold (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1993
• EAN: 9783110135138
• ISBN: 978-3-11-013513-8
• No. of pages: 494
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 37 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 826 g
• Illustrations: 38 b/w ill., 110 b/w tbl.
• Series: Gruyter Studies in Organization; de Gruyter Studies in Organization; de Gruyter Studies in Organization
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories