We study the transitions from career to gradual and permanent retirement by a sample of (Continental) European males aged 55 to 70 in the late 2000s. We find that only 14.6% of the workers in this sample moved from a career to a bridge job by the time of the interview, much less than in the...

Purpose of the study: We offer an empirically based taxonomy of the human resource policies of European employers in relation to older workers. In particular, three age-based strategies are discussed and analyzed in a simultaneous fashion: a focus on exit through retirement, workplace...

In The Decline of the Welfare State, Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka use a political economy framework to analyze the effects of aging populations, migration, and globalization on the deteriorating system of financing welfare state benefits as we know them. Their timely analysis, supported by a...

Part I. Introductory Section -- Chapter 1. Empirical and Policy Landscape; Jim Ogg and Martina Rasticova -- Chapter 2. Theoretical Perspectives; Clary Krekula, Sarah Vickerstaff -- Chapter 3. Data Sources and Issues; Michaela Gstrein and Tindara Addaboo -- Part II. Country Reports -- Chapter 4....