Book Review: Aging Populations, Globalization and the Labour Market: Comparing Late Working Life and Retirement in Modern Societies
| DOI | 10.1177/138826271301500109 |
| Published date | 01 March 2013 |
| Author | Mairéad Considine |
| Date | 01 March 2013 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
All in all, despite some rather minor criticisms, this piece of work, which includes
many original, interesting, and thought-provoking views on the subject matter, is
highly recommended.
Ulla Neergaard
University of Copenhagen
Denmark
Ulla Neergaard is Professor of EU Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of
Copenhagen. Since 2001, she has been the President of the Danish Association for
European Law (a subsidiary of the Fédération Internationale pour le Droit Européen,
FIDE) and, in the middle of 2012, took over the Presidency of the entire FIDE. Her
research interests include free movement law, EU citizenship, EU competition law and
European legal methods. She is currently involved in two research projects: ‘Towards
a European Legal Method: Synthesis or Fragmentation’ and ‘Transformation of
Markets and States’.
Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Sandra Buchholz and Karin Kurz (eds.), Aging Populations,
Globalization and the Labour Market: Comparing Late Working Life and Retirement
in Modern Societies, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2011, 338 pp., ISBN 978-1-84980-
372-4 (hardcover).
Th
e retirement and pensions policy landscape of advanced welfare states has altered
signifi cantly over the last three decades. Policy priorities shift ed from national labour
market stability, including the provision early exit routes to retirement in many
cases, to concern about the economic and fi scal impacts of ageing populations and
pension sustainability in which higher employment rates for older workers and later
retirement emerged as core policy objectives. Th
is edited multi-author volume is the
outcome of the second phase of the fl exCAREER research programme which charts
the evolution of these trends through an examination of late career and retirement
transitions and their impacts in ten OECD countries: Germany, the Netherlands,
Italy, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary, Estonia, the UK and USA. Th
e introductory
chapter situates the study in the context of...
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