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Reconstructing retirement : work and welfare in the UK and USA /
This assessment of the prospects for work and retirement at age 65plus in the UK and US is essential reading for researchers, students and practitioners interested in the late careers and the future of retirement.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK :
Policy Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- RECONSTRUCTING RETIREMENT; Contents; List of figures and tables; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: reconstructing retirement; Introduction; Explaining the rise of early retirement up to the early 2000s; From early to late exit since the 2000s; Reconstructing retirement policy (Part One of the book); Reconstructing employment and retirement behaviour (Part Two of the book); The reconstruction of retirement? Current paths and policy alternatives; Part One. The reconstruction of retirement policy; 2. Changing retirement incomes; Introduction
- The roots of state pension provisionReforms to state pensions; Changes to occupational and private pensions in the UK and the US; Conclusions; 3. The changing regulation of work and retirement; Introduction; Age discrimination and the position of older workers up to the 1970s; Promoting extended working lives through age discrimination legislation; The impact of age discrimination legislation; Conclusions: the conversion of age discrimination legislation to promote work at 65+; Part Two. Reconstructing employment and retirement behaviour; 4. Pathways to working at age 65+; Introduction
- Understanding employment at 65: job continuation or movement?Pathways to employment at 65-74; Pathways into inactivity at age 65-74; Transitions involving self-employment; Transitions in working time; Work factors associated with making employment transitions; Occupations; Conclusions; 5. The capability to work at age 65+?; Introduction; Education and employment at age 65+; Health; The interaction between health and education; Partner's health and other caring responsibilities; Conclusions and discussion; 6. The choice to work at age 65+?; Introduction; The choice to work?
- The influence of financial resources on employmentConclusions; Part Three. Current paths and policy alternatives; 7. Current paths and policy alternatives; Introduction: the state and the reconstruction of retirement policy; Current paths and future prospects for employment at 65+; Life-course policies to support retirement and work in older age; Paternalism, self-reliance and self-determination; Statistical appendix; Data in Chapter Two: the UK Labour Force Survey and US Current Population Survey
- Data in Part Two: the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing and the US Health and Retirement StudyReferences; Index