European University Institute Library

Challenges of aging, pensions, retirement and generational justice, edited by Cornelius Torp

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Challenges of aging

bibliography

903942078

edited by Cornelius Torp

pensions, retirement and generational justice

Over recent decades, population aging has become a truly global issue and has increasingly moved to the center of public attention. In this collection, leading international experts in the political and social sciences, demography, and history analyze the political and social consequences of demographic aging. The steadily rising share of retirees has put pension systems under increasing pressure and has provoked profound pension reforms in many industrialized countries. At the same time, aging societies experience significant changes both in the established patterns of transition from work to retirement and in the traditional concepts of retirement and old age. Running alongside the shift in the balance between younger and older people, the questions of generational justice have increasingly gained prominence in the Western world. This book is essential reading for all those concerned with the profound challenges faced by an aging world.--, Provided by publisher

Introduction: Demographic Aging as a Challenge to Modern Societies / Cornelius Torp -- I. The Multiple Facets of Population Aging -- 1. The Challenges of 21st Century Demography / Sarah Harper -- 2. Population Aging and the Changing Economic Life Cycle: A Global Perspective / Ronald Lee -- II. Pension Systems under Pressure -- 3. Age Politics and Pension Systems Development and Reform / Julia Lynch -- 4. Policy Feedbacks and Pension Policy Change / R. Kent Weaver -- 5. Sovereign Debt Crises and Pension Reforms in Europe / Karl Hinrichs -- 6. The UK Pensions Crisis and Institutional Innovation: Beyond Corporatism and Neo-liberalism / Gordon L. Clark -- III. Retirement and the Changing Images of Old Age -- 7. Work versus Leisure: Historical Roots of the Dissociation of Work and Later Life in Twentieth Century Europe / Josef Ehmer -- 8. From Retirement to Active Aging: Changing Images of 'Old Age' in the Late Twentieth and the Early Twenty-first Centuries / Stephan Lessenich -- 9. Delaying Retirement in Germany and Europe / Jürgen Bauknecht and Gerhard Naegele -- 10. Changing Retirement Transitions in Times of Paradigmatic Political Change: Towards Growing Inequalities? / Dirk Hofäcker, Moritz Hess and Elias Naumann -- IV. The Problem of Generational Justice -- 11. Intergenerational Equity: Historical Reconstructions / John Macnicol -- 12. Generational Justice, Generational Habitus and the 'Problem' of the Baby Boomers / Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard -- 13. Generations in Aging Societies: Inequalities, Cleavages, Conflicts / Martin Kohli