Regulating Employment and Welfare: Company and National Policies of Labour Force Participation at the End of Worklife in Industrial Countries (De Gruyter Studies in Organization)

Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory. Preface 1 The Dialectics of Work and Welfare 2 Early Retirement: Stability, Reversal, or Redefinition 3 The Netherlands: The Loreley-Effect of Early Exit 4 Germany: The Concerted Transition from Work to Welfare 5 Sweden: Policy Dilemmas of the Changing Age Structure in a ‘Work Society’ 6 Japan: Shukko, Teinen and Re-Employment 7 Former East-Germany: From Plan to Market and the Dramatic Effect on Exit 8 Great Britain: Firm Policy, State Policy and the Employment and Unemployment of Older Workers 9 The United States: Employer Policies for Discouraging Work by Older People 10 Regulating Employment and Welfare: An International Comparison between Firms and Countries Contributors

Research teams from Great Britain, Japan, the Netherlands, Germany, former East Germany and the United States of America examine the transition from paid employment to retirement in each country. The work is based on empirical data of the relevant actor systems: the states, collective organisations, firms and workers. Demographic trends and labour market dynamics, tight government finances and company budgets however give rise to fundamental changes in industrial work and social welfare regulation modes.