States, labor markets, and the future of old age policy /
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[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by John Myles and Jill Quadagno
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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324 pages ;
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24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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International perspectives on early withdrawal from the labor force / Anne-Marie Guillemard -- The demographics of age in labor-market management / Gösta Esping-Andersen and Harald Sonnberger -- The future of early retirement : the Federal Republic of Germany / Klaus Jacobs and Martin Rein -- Retirement in Japan / Toshi Kii -- Early retirement : questions and speculations / Harold L. Sheppard -- Epilogue : the "buffer years" : market incentives and evolving retirement policies / James H. Schulz
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Introduction : states, labor markets, and the future of old-age policy / Jill Quadagno and John Myles -- Thatcherism and the new politics of old age / Alan Walker -- Interest-group politics and the future of U.S. social security / Jill Quadagno -- The Reagan legacy : privatization, the welfare state, and aging in the 1990s / Carroll L. Estes -- The politics of dualism : pension policy in Canada / John Myles and Les Teichroew -- "Considerations of mere logic" : the Australian age pension and the politics of means testing / Sheila Shaver -- The politics of aging in Scandinavian countries / Fritz von Nordheim Nielsen -- Aging under state socialism : the case of Poland / Ewa Morawska