NEW FROM EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING

Aging Populations,Globalization and theLabor Market
Comparing Late Working Life andRetirement in Modern Societies
Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld,
Sandra Buchholz, Bamberg University
and Karin Kurz, Göttingen University,
Germany‘Welfare states react to globalization and adapt to aging
populations by reducing early retirement pathways and publicbenefits. How have these changes affected the transition to andincome situation during retirement? To investigate this crucialquestion, this eminent international team conducted sophisticated micro-level analysesof retirement patterns and old age inequality across Europe and the USA. For anyone
wishing to understand the significant cross-national differences that determine employment
precariousness and social inequality in old age, this book is a must-read.’– Bernhard Ebbinghaus, University of Mannheim, Germany
This topical and timely analysis of late career and retirement within nine European societies
and the USA examines how social inequality structures have developed in an era ofglobalization and aging populations.
For several decades, many European societies relied on pushing and luring older workers outof employment by using generous early retirement programs in order to relieve national labormarkets in times of globalization. However, as this book argues, one of the major challenges
facing European and Northern American societies today is their severe demographic aging,which in turn places pension systems under substantial pressure due to the rising imbalance
between those claiming pensions and those contributing to the pension system. Indeed,
it is observed herein that in the recent past, governments have tried to increase the labormarket attachment of older employees by retrenching early retirement benefits. This study
investigates how these developments have impacted on the situation of older workers andretirees in nine European societies and the USA. In particular, the book looks at how social
inequalities in later life have developed in the light of recent pension reforms.
This informative book will appeal to sociologists, demographers, political scientists andeconomists interested in many different aspects of research including: international
comparative research, globalization, labor market, welfare state, social inequality andresearch on aging. Researchers in the field of retirement and globalization studies will alsofind this book helpful, as will academics in labor market research and comparative politicalstudies.
Contributors: P. Barbieri, F. Bernardi, H.-P. Blossfeld, S. Buchholz, E. Bukodi, M. Gesthuizen, J. Hamil-Luker, K. Kurz, M. Larsen,
A.M. O’Rand, J. Radl, A. Rinklake, E. Saar, S. Scherer, J. Schilling, P. Schmelzer, G. Sjögren Lindquist, K. Täht, M. Unt,
A. Veira-Ramos, M.H.J. Wolbers

EBOOK
ORDERS

2011 360 pp Hardback 978 1 84980 372 4 £89.95 • e 978 1 84980 585 8
Our eBooks are available for individuals from the Google
ebookstore (US only) and eBooks.com and for libraries througheBooks on EBSCOhost, Ebrary, EBL, Myilibrary and Dawsonera.
They are not available directly from Edward Elgar Publishingor Marston. For enquiries about purchasing collections email
sales@e-elgar.co.uk

TO ORDER,
PLEASE CONTACT:Marston Book Services Ltd
160 Milton Park
Abingdon, Oxon
OX14 4SD UK
Tel: + 44 1235 465500
Fax: + 44 1235 465555
direct.order@marston.co.uk

FOR INFORMATION,
PLEASE CONTACT:Sales & Marketing Department
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
The Lypiatts
15 Lansdown Road
Cheltenham, Glos
GL50 2JA UK
Tel: + 44 1242 226934
Fax: + 44 1242 262111
www.e-elgar.com
for your free catalogues,
please email:info@e-elgar.co.uk