Comparing late working life and retirement in Europe and the US : the development of social inequalities in times of globalization and aging societies

Abstract

The main purpose of the country studies assembled in this book is to examine systematically how late employment careers, the timing of retirement and the level of pension incomes have changed over the last decades in the course of globalization, economic restructuring and demographic aging in a wide range of European and North American countries (Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States).