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Om op termijn voldoende mensen aan het werk te krijgen moet het stelsel van sociale zekerheid aanzienlijk worden omgevormd. Er worden drie mogelijke oplossingsrichtingen onderzocht: polisbeleid, activeringsbeleid en toeslagenbeleid. Een langetermijnstrategie om de arbeidsproductiviteit van de beroepsbevolking te verhogen, vergt vooral investeringen in mensen. Volgens de Raad biedt een combinatie van een activeringsbeleid en een toeslagenbeleid hiertoe een gunstige mogelijkheid. Bevordering van de arbeidsparticipatie noopt volgens de Raad tot individuele gevalsbehandeling in maatwerk over een brede linie. Dit stelt hoge eisen aan de rechtswaarborgen. De WRR bepleit hiertoe een beter machtsevenwicht tussen gevalsbehandelaar, werkzoekende en werkgever. In order to get enough people to work in the long term, the social security system needs to be considerably transformed. Three possible solutions are being investigated: policy policy, activation policy and allowance policy. A long-term strategy to increase the labor productivity of the labor force requires investment in people in particular. According to the Council, a combination of an activation policy and an allowance policy offers a favorable opportunity for this. According to the Council, promoting participation in the labor market requires individual case treatment in customization across a broad line. This places high demands on legal guarantees. To this end, the WRR advocates a better balance of power between case handler, job seeker and employer.

Social security --- Aging --- Retirement age --- Baby boom generation --- Older people --- Economic aspects --- Retirement --- Employment

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Men Still at Work explores the reasons many men are continuing to work well beyond the traditional retirement age. In today's challenging economy, they are the second-fastest growing group of workers (just behind older women). Filled with profiles of older working men, as well as dynamic interview quotes, Men Still at Work explores thorny issues such as masculinity and the "need to provide," as well as economic realities, job satisfaction, and more.

Older men --- Professional employees --- Retirement age --- Age and employment --- Employment --- Aged men --- Men --- Older people --- E-books

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Swiss economists have proposed to individualize the funded second pillar of the Swiss retirement provision system (BVG) by granting employees flexibility with respect to the contribution rate and risky asset share in their accounts. Opponents have stressed that such a reform would transfer the investment risk from pension funds to financially illiterate employees and thus imply a welfare loss. Florian Zainhofer uses the theory of life cycle investing, i.e. how we should optimally choose our savings rate and risky asset share throughout our lives, as a framework to study the implications of a potential BVG individualization. Following an introduction on the Swiss system of old-age provision, the author reviews recent life cycle models of portfolio choice and covers their numerical solution algorithms in depth. He presents an empirical analysis of Swiss workers’ earnings dynamics since these are important determinants of life cycle investment behavior. To further investigate the implications of a flexible contribution rate and risky asset share in the mandatory BVG, the author proposes a model adapted to Swiss conditions and parameterized with the estimated earnings dynamics.

Old age pensions --- Retirement, Mandatory --- Compulsory retirement --- Mandatory retirement --- Retirement age --- Macroeconomics. --- Finance. --- Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics. --- Finance, general. --- Funding --- Funds --- Economics --- Currency question

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This book offers a challenge to the assumption that there is appropriate employment available for people who are expected to retire later, and the gender-neutral way the expectation for extending working lives is presented in most policy-making circles.

Retirement age. --- Life span, Productive. --- Age of retirement --- Pension age --- Age and employment --- Retirement, Mandatory --- Productive life span --- Work life --- Working life --- Life cycle, Human --- Post-retirement employment

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The monograph disseminates the very topical issue of retirement and its timing as the key to one of the greatest challenges facing ageing societies. Postponing retirement is now almost universally regarded as indispensable in order to relieve European welfare states from the demography-related financial pressures. This seminal study, derived from a statistical analysis of a large-scale survey data, provides a thorough understanding of the micro- and macro-level determinants of retirement timing in contemporary Western Europe. The book is the first monograph to combine the analysis of the retirement attitudes with the analysis of the retirement behaviour within one research. It tackles the question as to whether early retirement can be explained by "early exit culture", triangulating life course theory with a social stratification approach. The author used a novel and innovative approach to obtain the results. The methodology includes: tobit models of proscriptive age norms; simulations of the impact of class structure on a country's average retirement age; competing risks models of different work-exit modalities; duration selection models of retirement timing.

Retirement age --- Labor market --- Age of retirement --- Pension age --- Age and employment --- Retirement, Mandatory --- Employees --- Market, Labor --- Supply and demand for labor --- Markets --- Supply and demand --- Life course, ageing, social stratification, gender, social norms, Western Europe, international comparison, event-history analysis. --- Europe occidentale. --- Espagne. --- Allemagne.