| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 conventional wisdom on the cross-national differences in retirement ages |
| Subject |
Retirement age -- Europe, Western
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Labor market -- Europe, Western
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Labor market
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Retirement age
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Western Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
8376560417 |
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9788376560410 |
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