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Age, Work and Social Security

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  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. A. B. Atkinson

    1. University of Cambridge, UK

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  2. Martin Rein

    1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

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One of the most important changes in industrialised societies is the trend to early retirement. This volume is concerned with early exit from employment, the well-being of the early retired, and the policy issues raised. The topics include trends in the health of the elderly, disability insurance, pension policy, gender disparities, minimum standards in old age, and the harmonisation of pension schemes. The volume is cross-country in its coverage and cross-disciplinary in its approach.

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  3. Well-being of the Retired

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. Cross-National Patterns of Retirement and Poverty among Men and Women in the Mid 1980s: Full Stop or Gradual Withdrawal?

      • Timothy M. Smeeding
      Pages 91-114

    3. The Economic Well-being of Older Men in Six Countries

      • Lee Rainwater, Martin Rein
      Pages 115-131

    4. Two Nations in Early Retirement? The Case of Britain

      • A. B. Atkinson, H. Sutherland
      Pages 132-160

    5. Measuring the Well-being of the Elderly

      • Arie Kapteyn, Bertrand Melenberg
      Pages 161-187

    6. The Production of Gender Disparities over the Life Course and Their Effects in Old Age — Results from the West German Life History Study

      • Jutta Allmendinger, Hannah Brückner, Erika Brückner
      Pages 188-223

    7. Minimum Standards in Old Age Security and the Problem of Poverty in Old Age

      • Jürgen Kohl
      Pages 224-252

  5. A Summing Up

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 341-341
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    2. Retirement Policy: An Idiosyncratic Research Agenda

      • Henry J. Aaron
      Pages 343-356

    3. Evaluation from the Policy Viewpoint

      • Ralf Jacob
      Pages 357-364

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 365-374
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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Cambridge, UK

    A. B. Atkinson

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

    Martin Rein

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