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Trends and determinants of work-retirement transitions under changing institutional conditions
— Germany, England and Japan compared | | Author(s) | Dirk Hofacker, Heike Schroder, Yuxin Li, Matthew Flynn |
| Journal title | Journal of Social Policy, vol 45, no 1, January 2016 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, January 2016 |
| Pages | pp 39-64 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/JSP |
| Keywords | Employment of older people ; Transitional phase ; Redundancy ; Retirement ; Retirement policy ; Longitudinal surveys ; Comparison ; Germany ; England ; Japan. |
| Annotation | Many governments world-wide are promoting longer working life, due to the social and economic repercussions of demographic change. However, not all workers are equally able to extend their employment careers. Thus, while national policies raise the overall level of labour market participation, they might create new social and labour market inequalities. This paper explores how institutional differences in the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan affect individual retirement decisions on the aggregate level, and variations in individuals' degree of choice within and across countries. The authors investigate which groups of workers are disproportionately at risk of being 'pushed' out of employment, and how such inequalities have changed over time. They use comparable national longitudinal survey datasets that focus on the older population in England, Germany and Japan. Results point to cross-national differences in retirement transitions. Retirement transitions in Germany have occurred at an earlier age than in England and Japan. In Japan, the incidence of involuntary retirement is the lowest, reflecting an institutional context prescribing that employers provide employment until pension age. In Germany and England, substantial proportions of involuntary exits have been triggered by organisational-level redundancies, persistent early retirement plans, or individual ill-health. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-160115214 A |
| Classmark | GC: 4MT: WI: G3: G5: 3J: 48: 767: 82: 7DT |
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