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Age integration in Europe — increasing or decreasing?
Author(s)	Anne-Marie Guillemard
Journal title	The Gerontologist, vol 40, no 3, June 2000
Pages	pp 301-302
Keywords	Integration [elderly] ; Europe.
Annotation	The author's current research on employment throughout the life course focuses on how European societies deal with this issue, by the way in which they distribute work and non-work across age strata and across the life course. One example of good innovation in France is the "Time Savings Account". This provides paid leaves of absence into a type of "capital" for employees, regardless of age; the idea has inspired a report to the European Union (EU). There needs to be a single welfare policy, where age would become irrelevant as the central criterion for allocating "social rights" and welfare benefits. This is one of a series of eleven essays originally presented at sessions on age integration at both the International Sociological Association meeting in Montreal and the American Sociological Association meeting in San Francisco in 1998, and also adapted from a working paper issued by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) in May 1999. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-000717226 A
Classmark	F:TO: 74
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