Retirement Timing and Social Stratification: A Comparative Study of Labor Market Exit and Age Norms in Western Europe

Jonas Radl

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Open Poland 2014

Retirement Timing and Social Stratification

A Comparative Study of Labor Market Exit and Age Norms in Western Europe

Jonas Radl

https://doi.org/10.2478/9788376560410

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About this book

The monograph disseminates the very topical issue of retirement and its timing as the key to one of the greatest challenges facing ageing societies. Postponing retirement is now almost universally regarded as indispensable in order to relieve European welfare states from the demography-related financial pressures. This seminal study, derived from a statistical analysis of a large-scale survey data, provides a thorough understanding of the micro- and macro-level determinants of retirement timing in contemporary Western Europe. The book is the first monograph to combine the analysis of the retirement attitudes with the analysis of the retirement behaviour within one research. It tackles the question as to whether early retirement can be explained by “early exit culture”, triangulating life course theory with a social stratification approach. The author used a novel and innovative approach to obtain the results. The methodology includes: tobit models of proscriptive age norms; simulations of the impact of class structure on a country’s average retirement age; competing risks models of different work-exit modalities; duration selection models of retirement timing.

life course, social stratification

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Jonas Radl, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	7
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	11
List of Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	14
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	16
Abstract Publicly Available Download PDF	18
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	19
1. Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	21
2. Theoretical Approaches to Retirement and Early Exit from Work Publicly Available Download PDF	33
3. Social Variability in Retirement Behaviour: An Analytical Framework Publicly Available Download PDF	55
4. Too Old to Work, or Too Young to Retire? The Pervasiveness of Age Norms in Western European Societies Publicly Available Download PDF	89
5. Differential Retirement Behavior in Western Europe: Social Stratification and Cross-National Diversity Publicly Available Download PDF	136
6. Retirement Timing and Social Stratification in Spain Publicly Available Download PDF	189
7. Retirement Timing and Social Stratification in Germany Publicly Available Download PDF	230
8. Conclusions Publicly Available Download PDF	276
References Publicly Available Download PDF	288
Index Publicly Available Download PDF	325

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Open Poland
Audience: Academics (sociology, gerontology, social policy), policy makers
Pages
- Main content: 329
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 32
- Coloured Illustrations: 3
- Tables: 36
Keywords: Life course; ageing; social stratification; gender; social norms; Western Europe; international comparison; event-history analysis

eBook

Published: January 23, 2014
ISBN: 9788376560410

Hardcover

Published: January 23, 2014
ISBN: 9788376560403