Retirement Transitions in Times of Institutional Change: Theoretical Concept

Delaying Retirement. Progress and Challenges of Active Ageing in Europe, the United States and Japan
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pp. 1-22
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London
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016,

Moritz Heß, Stefanie König,
Hofäcker, Dirk, Jonas Radl
ISBN: 978-1-137-56696-6 (print); 978-1-137-56697-3 (online)
DOI: 
10.1057/978-1-137-56697-3_1
Abstract

For more than three decades, many European and other affluent societies have been following a trend of fostering older workers’ exit from employment well before reaching formal retirement ages. Yet, faced with demographic aging, many countries have undergone a substantial change in their policies toward older workers, reflected in a shift to a policy explicitly fostering longer working careers and employment retention of older workers. This introductory chapter takes this institutional shift as a starting point for developing a novel theoretical framework that conceptualizes work and retirement transitions within this changing institutional landscape.

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