States, labor markets, and the future of old age policy /

Original essays examine how various countries have responded to population aging and increases in national expenditures for the elderly.

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Other Authors: Myles, John, 1943-, Quadagno, Jill S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple Univ. Press, ©1991.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : states, labor markets, and the future of old-age policy / Jill Quadagno and John Myles
  • Thatcherism and the new politics of old age / Alan Walker
  • Interest-group politics and the future of U.S. social security / Jill Quadagno
  • The Reagan legacy : privatization, the welfare state, and aging in the 1990s / Carroll L. Estes
  • The politics of dualism : pension policy in Canada / John Myles and Les Teichroew
  • "Considerations of mere logic" : the Australian age pension and the politics of means testing / Sheila Shaver
  • The politics of aging in Scandinavian countries / Fritz von Nordheim Nielsen
  • Aging under state socialism : the case of Poland / Ewa Morawska
  • International perspectives on early withdrawal from the labor force / Anne-Marie Guillemard
  • The demographics of age in labor-market management / Gösta Esping-Andersen and Harald Sonnberger
  • The future of early retirement : the Federal Republic of Germany / Klaus Jacobs and Martin Rein
  • Retirement in Japan / Toshi Kii
  • Early retirement : questions and speculations / Harold L. Sheppard
  • Epilogue : the "buffer years" : market incentives and evolving retirement policies / James H. Schulz.