Challenges of Aging: Pensions, Retirement and Generational Justice

Introduction: Demographic Aging as a Challenge to Modern Societies; Cornelius Torp PART I: THE MULTIPLE FACETS OF POPULATION AGING 1. The Challenges of 21st Century Demography; Sarah Harper 2. Population Aging and the Changing Economic Life Cycle: A Global Perspective; Ronald Lee PART II: PENSION SYSTEMS UNDER PRESSURE 3. Age Politics and Pension Systems Development and Reform; Julia Lynch 4. Policy Feedbacks and Pension Policy Change; R. Kent Weaver 5. Sovereign Debt Crises and Pension Reforms in Europe; Karl Hinrichs 6. The UK Pensions Crisis and Institutional Innovation: Beyond Corporatism and Neo-liberalism; Gordon L. Clark PART III: RETIREMENT AND THE CHANGING IMAGES OF OLD AGE 7. Work versus Leisure: Historical Roots of the Dissociation of Work and Later Life in Twentieth Century Europe; Josef Ehmer 8. From Retirement to Active Aging: Changing Images of 'Old Age' in the Late Twentieth and the Early Twenty-first Centuries; Stephan Lessenich 9. Delaying Retirement in Germany and Europe; Jürgen Bauknecht and Gerhard Naegele 10. Changing Retirement Transitions in Times of Paradigmatic Political Change: Towards Growing Inequalities?; Dirk Hofäcker, Moritz Hess and Elias Naumann PART IV: THE PROBLEM OF GENERATIONAL JUSTICE 11. Intergenerational Equity: Historical Reconstructions; John Macnicol 12. Generational Justice, Generational Habitus and the 'Problem' of the Baby Boomers; Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard 13. Generations in Aging Societies: Inequalities, Cleavages, Conflicts; Martin Kohli