This book explores how aging men struggled to sustain identities as workers, breadwinners, and patriarchs-the core ideals of twentieth-century masculinity-in the midst of increasing employer demands for the speed and stamina of youth in workplaces and the expansion of mandatory retirement...

This book is an accessibly-written critical introduction to the role of age in and beyond organizations, providing insights into the history of age, the social construction and politics of age, age stratification, and age discrimination.

This is a solution-oriented book to address one of the most pressing management problems of the coming years: How do organizations transfer the critical expertise and experience of their employees before that knowledge walks out the door?.

Intro -- Preface -- 1 The Dialectics of Work and Welfare -- 2 Early Retirement: Stability, Reversal, or Redefinition -- 3 The Netherlands: The Loreley-Effect of Early Exit -- 4 Germany: The Concerted Transition from Work to Welfare -- 5 Sweden: Policy Dilemmas of the Changing Age Structure in a...

This volume presents innovative research on issues of importance to the well-being of older persons: labor market behavior, health care, housing and living arrangements, and saving and wealth. Specific topics include the effect of labor market rigidities on the employment of older workers; the...

This book investigates several important issues in the economics of aging, including the accumulation of wealth and the relationship between health and financial prosperity.Examining the changes in savings behavior and investment priorities in the United States over the past few decades,...

The original essays and commentary in this volume-the third in a series reporting the results of the NBER Economics of Aging Program-address issues that are of particular importance to the well-being of individuals as they age and to a society at large that is composed increasingly of older...

Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World represents the second stage of an ongoing research project studying the relationship between social security and labor. In the first volume, Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise revealed enormous disincentives to continued work at older ages...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I - Background -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Why compare Germany and the United States? -- 1.2 Why study income mobility around job loss and retirement? -- 1.3 Overview of the study -- 2. Welfare state change and income mobility: a framework -- 2.1 Income...