1 Retirement Transitions in Times of Institutional Change:
Theoretical Concept .......................................... 1
Dirk Hofäcker and Jonas Radl
2 Trends and Determinants of Retirement Transition in Europe,
the USA and Japan: A Comparative Overview ................... 23
Stefanie König, Moritz Hess, and Dirk Hofäcker
3 Determinants of Retirement and Late Careers in Estonia ...... 53
Marge Unt and Ellu Saar
4 Path Dependency Versus New Determinants of Retirement in
the Czech Republic .......................................... 73
Lucie Vidovićová
5 Retirement in a Context of Strong Institutional
Uncertainty and Territorial Diversities: The Case of Italy .. 97
Sonia Bertolini, Nicola De Luigi, Barbara Giullari,
Valentina Goglio, Roberto Rizza, and Federica Santangelo
6 Ebb and Flow of Early Retirement: Pension Reform and Labor
Market Participation of Older Workers in Spain ............. 123
Elisa Chuliá, Luis Garrido, and Jonas Radl
7 Germany: A Successful Reversal of Early Retirement? ........ 147
Moritz Hess
8 From Early Exit to Postponing Pension: How the Dutch
Polder Model Shapes Retirement ............................. 171
Maria Fleischmann and Ferry Koster
9 Retirement Determinants in Austria: An Aging Society but
a Hesitant Policymaker!? ................................... 195
Lisa Schmidthuber, Heike Schröder, and Edmund Panzenböck
10 Employment and Retirement of Older Workers in the UK ....... 221
Matt Flynn and Yuxin Li
11 Japan: Determinants of Retirement in a Hyper-Aged Society .. 241
Masa Higo, Heike Schröder, and Atsuhiro Yamada
12 The Gendered and Liberal Retirement Regime in Switzerland .. 269
Ignacio Madero-Cabib
13 The Outdistanced Vanguard: Early Retirement Policy
in Denmark as an Obstacle to Progress in Active Aging ...... 291
Stefanie König and Julia Schilling
14 Sweden: Steeply Rising Older Workers' Employment Rates in
a Late-Exit Country ........................................ 315
Stefanie König and Gabriella Sjögren Lindquist
15 The Increasing Heterogeneity of Retirement in the USA:
Interactions Between State, Firm, and Individual
Determinants of Later-Life Labor Force Withdrawal .......... 337
David F. Warner
16 Retirement Transitions Under Changing Institutional
Conditions: Towards Increasing Inequalities? Comparing
Evidence from 13 Countries ................................. 363
Moritz Hess, Stefanie König, and Dirk Hofäcker
Index ......................................................... 379
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