Reforming Early Retirement in Europe, Japan and the USA

ISBN-13: 9780199553396 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 352 str.

Bernhard Ebbinghaus

Opis

Comparing the USA, eight European countries, and Japan, this book demonstrates significant cross-national differences in early retirement across countries and over time. The study evaluates the impact of major variations in welfare regimes, production systems, and labor relations and provides comprehensive empirical analysis and a balanced approach to studying both the pull and the push factors affecting early exit from work needed to understand the development of early retirement regimes.

O autorze

Bernhard Ebbinghaus is Professor of Macrosociology at the University of Mannheim and Head of the Research Department on "European Societies and their Integration " at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). He received his Ph.D. from the European University Institute in Florence and his Habilitation from the University of Cologne. He was Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Kennedy Fellow at Harvard University, and visiting professor at the universities of Wisconsin-Madison and Jena. His main research interests are comparative social policy, industrial relations and labour market developments in Europe, Japan and the USA.