TY  - BOOK
AU  - Radl,Jonas
TI  - Retirement Timing and Social Stratification: A Comparative Study of Labor Market Exit and Age Norms in Western Europe 
SN  - 9788376560410
U1  - 300 
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Warsaw, Berlin : 
PB  - De Gruyter Open Poland, 
KW  - Arbeitsmarkt
KW  - Life course, ageing, social stratification, gender, social norms, Western Europe, international comparison, event-history analysis
KW  - Vorruhestand
KW  - Wohlfahrtsstaat
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; List of Tables --; Acknowledgments --; Abstract --; Abbreviations --; 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 European Societies --; 5. Differential Retirement Behavior 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 --; References --; Index; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2478/9788376560410
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ER  -