Challenges of ageing
Subtitle: pensions, retirement and generational justice
By: edited by Cornelius Torp
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137283160
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography; Population aging
Description: "Over recent decades, population ageing has become a truly global issue and has increasingly moved to the centre of public attention. Leading international experts in the political and social sciences, demography and history analyse the political and social consequences of demographic ageing. Together the contributions offer three main observations. First, the steadily-rising share of retirees has put pension systems under increasing pressure and has provoked profound pension reforms in many industrialized countries. Second, ageing societies experience significant changes both in the established patterns of transition from work to retirement as well as in the traditional concepts of retirement and old age. Third, running alongside the shift in the balance between younger and older people, the questions of generational justice have increasingly gained prominence in the Western world. This book is essential reading for all those concerned with the profound challenges faced by an ageing world"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction: Demographic Aging as a Challenge to Modern Societies; Cornelius Torp; title: PART I: THE MULTIPLE FACETS OF POPULATION AGING; title: 1. The Challenges of 21st Century Demography; Sarah Harper; title: 2. Population Aging and the Changing Economic Life Cycle: A Global Perspective; Ronald Lee; title: PART II: PENSION SYSTEMS UNDER PRESSURE; title: 3. Age Politics and Pension Systems Development and Reform; Julia Lynch; title: 4. Policy Feedbacks and Pension Policy Change; R. Kent Weaver; title: 5. Sovereign Debt Crises and Pension Reforms in Europe; Karl Hinrichs; title: 6. The UK Pensions Crisis and Institutional Innovation: Beyond Corporatism and Neo-liberalism; Gordon L. Clark; title: PART III: RETIREMENT AND THE CHANGING IMAGES OF OLD AGE; title: 7. Work versus Leisure: Historical Roots of the Dissociation of Work and Later Life in Twentieth Century Europe; Josef Ehmer; title: 8. From Retirement to Active Aging: Changing Images of 'Old Age' in the Late Twentieth and the Early Twenty-first Centuries; Stephan Lessenich; title: 9. Delaying Retirement in Germany and Europe; Jürgen Bauknecht and Gerhard Naegele; title: 10. Changing Retirement Transitions in Times of Paradigmatic Political Change: Towards Growing Inequalities?; Dirk Hofa;cker, Moritz Hess and Elias Naumann; title: PART IV: THE PROBLEM OF GENERATIONAL JUSTICE; title: 11. Intergenerational Equity: Historical Reconstructions; John Macnicol; title: 12. Generational Justice, Generational Habitus and the 'Problem' of the Baby Boomers; Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard; title: 13. Generations in Aging Societies: Inequalities, Cleavages, Conflicts; Martin Kohli.