Winfried Schmähl (ed.) with contributions by L. Bellmann [and others].
Berlin ; New York
Springer-Verlag
2012
179 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1989--Title page verso.;"Based on revised versions of a series of papers presented at a conference held in West Berlin in October 1987"--Foreword.
I.- Retirement at the Cross-Roads - Tasks and Problems Under Changing Economic and Demographic Conditions. Some Introductory Remarks -.- II.- The Process of Retirement in Germany: Trends, Public Discussion and Options for its Redefinition.- III.- Early Retirement in Sweden.- The Process of Retirement in Denmark: Trends, Public Discussion and Institutional Framework.- The Flexible Pensionable Age in Finland.- IV.- American Patterns of Work and Retirement.- The Retirement Process in the United States: Mobility Among Full-Time Work, Partial Retirement, and Full Retirement.- V.- Early Retirement: The Problems of "Instrument Substitution" and "Cost Shifting" and Their Implications for Restructuring the Process of Retirement.- VI.- Seniority-Based Wage System and Postponed Retirement.- Employment of Older Persons from a Management Point of View.