Challenges of Aging: Pensions, Retirement and Generational Justice

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Demographic Aging as a Challenge to Modern Societies....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
The Challenges of Twenty-First-Century Demography....Pages 17-29
Population Aging and the Changing Economic Life Cycle: A Global Perspective....Pages 31-46
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Age Politics and Pension Systems Development and Reform....Pages 49-60
Policy Feedbacks and Pension Policy Change....Pages 61-82
Sovereign Debt Crises and Pension Reforms in Europe....Pages 83-103
The UK Pensions Crisis and Institutional Innovation: Beyond Corporatism and Neoliberalism....Pages 105-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Work versus Leisure: Historical Roots of the Dissociation of Work and Later Life in Twentieth-Century Europe....Pages 135-164
From Retirement to Active Aging: Changing Images of ‘Old Age’ in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries....Pages 165-177
Delaying Retirement in Germany and Europe....Pages 179-204
Changing Retirement Transitions in Times of Paradigmatic Political Change: Toward Growing Inequalities....Pages 205-226
Front Matter....Pages 227-227
Intergenerational Equity: Historical Reconstructions....Pages 229-249
Generational Justice, Generational Habitus and the ‘Problem’ of the Baby Boomers....Pages 251-263
Generations in Aging Societies: Inequalities, Cleavages, Conflicts....Pages 265-288
Back Matter....Pages 289-295