Reforming Early Retirement in Europe, Japan and the Usa

Klappentext Comparing the USA, eight European countries, and Japan, this book demonstrates significant cross-national differences in early retirement across countries and over time. The study evaluates the impact of major variations in welfare regimes, production systems, and labor relations and provides comprehensive empirical analysis and a balanced approach to studying both the pull and the push factors affecting early exit from work needed to understand the development of early retirement regimes. Zusammenfassung Early retirement has become a major problem in modern societies. Focusing on the USA, Europe, and Japan, this volume provides a comprehensive, empirical analysis of why different early exit schemes have emerged across advanced market economies, why this trend has been so difficult to counter, and the resulting policy reforms. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: Exploring Interests and Institutions 1: Introduction: The Paradox of Early Exit from Work 2: Actor Constellations and Interest Coalitions: Labor, Emoployers, and the State 3: Protection, Production, anfd Partnership Institutions: From Institutional Affinities to Complementarities Part 2: Comparing Early Exit Regimes 4: Ever Earlier Retirement: Comparing Employment Trajectories 5: The Protection-Pull Factors: Multiple Pathways to Early Exit 6: The Production-Push Factors: The Political Economy of Labor Shedding Part 3: Reform Obstacles and Opportunities 7: Exit from Early Retirement: Paradigm Shifts, Policy Reversals, and Reform Obstacles 8: Conclusion: From Path Dependence to Path Departure? Bibliography Appendix Note

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• Authors: Ebbinghaus, Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (Professor of Macrosociology Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (Professor of Macrosociology at the University of Mannheim) Ebbinghaus, Ebbinghaus Bernhard
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.07.2006
• EAN: 9780199286119
• ISBN: 978-0-19-928611-9
• No. of pages: 350
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); USA, Japan, Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / Later Years, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, Comparative Politics, United States of America, USA, Sociology & anthropology, Retirement, Sociology and anthropology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General