Challenges of aging : pensions, retirement and generational justice

ed. by Cornelius Torp

Over recent decades, population aging has become a truly global issue and has increasingly moved to the center of public attention. In this collection, leading international experts in the political and social sciences, demography, and history analyze the political and social consequences of demographic aging. The steadily rising share of retirees has put pension systems under increasing pressure and has provoked profound pension reforms in many industrialized countries. At the same time, aging societies experience significant changes both in the established patterns of transition from work to retirement and in the traditional concepts of retirement and old age. Running alongside the shift in the balance between younger and older people, the questions of generational justice have increasingly gained prominence in the Western world. This book is essential reading for all those concerned with the profound challenges faced by an aging world

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Year of publication:	2015 ; 1. publ.
Other Persons:	Torp, Cornelius (contributor)
Publisher:	Basingstoke [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan
Subject:	Alternde Bevölkerung \| Aging population \| Altersvorsorge \| Retirement provision \| Rentenpolitik \| Pension policy \| Altersgrenze \| Retirement \| Ältere Menschen \| Elderly people \| Generationengerechtigkeit \| Intergenerational equity \| Europa \| Europe \| Alter \| Altersruhegeld
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de] ; Description [swbplus.bsz-bw.de]

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Extent:	XVII, 295 S. graph. Darst. 23 cm
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Aufsatzsammlung ; Sammelwerk ; Collection of articles of several authors
Language:	English
Notes:	Enth. 13 Beitr. Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction: Demographic Aging as a Challenge to Modern Societies; Cornelius TorpPART I: THE MULTIPLE FACETS OF POPULATION AGING -- 1. The Challenges of 21st Century Demography; Sarah Harper -- 2. Population Aging and the Changing Economic Life Cycle: A Global Perspective; Ronald Lee -- PART II: PENSION SYSTEMS UNDER PRESSURE -- 3. Age Politics and Pension Systems Development and Reform; Julia Lynch -- 4. Policy Feedbacks and Pension Policy Change; R. Kent Weaver -- 5. Sovereign Debt Crises and Pension Reforms in Europe; Karl Hinrichs -- 6. The UK Pensions Crisis and Institutional Innovation: Beyond Corporatism and Neo-liberalism; Gordon L. Clark -- PART III: RETIREMENT AND THE CHANGING IMAGES OF OLD AGE -- 7. Work versus Leisure: Historical Roots of the Dissociation of Work and Later Life in Twentieth Century Europe; Josef Ehmer -- 8. From Retirement to Active Aging: Changing Images of 'Old Age' in the Late Twentieth and the Early Twenty-first Centuries; Stephan Lessenich -- 9. Delaying Retirement in Germany and Europe; Jrgen Bauknecht and Gerhard Naegele -- 10. Changing Retirement Transitions in Times of Paradigmatic Political Change: Towards Growing Inequalities?; Dirk Hofcker, Moritz Hess and Elias Naumann -- PART IV: THE PROBLEM OF GENERATIONAL JUSTICE -- 11. Intergenerational Equity: Historical Reconstructions; John Macnicol -- 12. Generational Justice, Generational Habitus and the 'Problem' of the Baby Boomers; Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard -- 13. Generations in Aging Societies: Inequalities, Cleavages, Conflicts; Martin Kohli.
ISBN:	978-1-137-28316-0 ; 978-1-137-28316-0 ; 1-137-28316-5
Classification:	Alterssoziologie
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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