Extent: | XVII, 295 S. graph. Darst. 23 cm |
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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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