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Re-writing social policy and changes within the life course organisation
— a European perspective | | Author(s) | Anne-Marie Guillemard |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 16, no 3, Autumn 1997 |
| Pages | pp 441-464 |
| Keywords | Labour economics ; Retirement policy ; Europe. |
| Annotation | The move toward early retirement as witnessed over the last few years in Europe comes from social assistance mechanisms, other than old age security and is not due to a simple early retirement age. Two systems have been used primarily to help older workers: disability and employment insurance. "Early retirement" mechanisms have also helped these active or unemployed workers retire, by means of allocating resources. The social security structure in European countries has remained essentially unchanged, with the risks and logistics of management inextricably intertwined. Moreover, these new forms of transition between activity and retirement reveal the reorganisation under way in all matters related to older workers. One of the implications of the massive movement towards early retirement has been that the tripartite life course in which important social stages within the life course are marked by milestones (e.g. school age, retirement age) is disappearing. It is gradually being replaced with new flexibility for managing the end of the life course. This type of evolution would require us to rethink the social protection system in the sense of reducing the distinct ternary division in the life course. In this perspective, the very concepts of retirement and social transfers for definitive activity are no longer relevant. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980720208 A |
| Classmark | WH: G5: 74 |
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