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Retirement timing and social stratification

The book addresses a timely issue that attracts both researchers and policy-makers: the factors explaining early retirement. The study uses cutting-edge methodology to produce fresh empirical evidence that sheds a new light on the processes of leaving work and challenges occasionally the conventiona...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jonas Radl
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : E-Content Generic Vendor, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical approaches to retirement and early exit from work
  • 3. Social variability in retirement behaviour: an analytical framework
  • 4. Too old to work, or too young to retire? The pervasiveness of age norms in Western Europe societies
  • 5. Differential retirement behaviour in Western Europe: social stratification and cross-national diversity
  • 6. Retirement timing and social stratification in Spain
  • 7. Retirement timing and social stratification in Germany
  • 8. Conclusions.