The Impact of Losing Your Job
Martin Ehlert
- Title
- Late-career Risks in Changing Welfare States
- Subtitle
- Comparing Germany and the United States since the 1980s
- Author
- Jan Paul Heisig
- Price
- € 129,00 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- 9789089646774
- Format
- Hardback
- Number of pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 24 - 07 - 2015
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Open Access
- Download on Open Access Platform
- Series
- Changing Welfare States
- Category
- Politics and Government
- Discipline
- Social and Political Sciences
- Also available as
- eBook PDF - € 0,00
Part I - Background
Ch. 1: Introduction
Ch. 2: Welfare state change and income mobility: a framework
Ch. 3: Institutional context and social policy change
Ch. 4: Data and Methods
Part II - Economic consequences of retirement
Ch. 5: Literature review and research questions
Ch. 6: The changing economic consequences of retirement
Part III - Economic consequences of late-career job loss
Ch. 7: Literature review and research questions
Ch. 8: The changing economic consequences of late-career job loss
Part IV - Conclusion
Ch. 9: Conclusion
Reviews and Features
"Presents an empirical assessment of the direction and implications of welfare state change" -- Journal ofEconomic Literature
Jan Paul Heisig
Late-career Risks in Changing Welfare States
Comparing Germany and the United States since the 1980s
Motivated by ongoing debates over welfare state retrenchment and growing economic insecurity, this book compares the situation of older workers in Germany and the United States over the past three decades. Both nations are seeing a rise in insecurity for older workers, but the differences in support programs, pensions, and retirement options have led to differing outcomes for workers faced with early retirement or job loss.
Author
Jan Paul Heisig
Jan Paul Heisig is a researcher at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB - Berlin Social Science Center). He is the author of several research articles that have appeared in journals such as American Sociological Review and Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie.
