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1 online resource (265 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Introduction; 1 Cohorts, Inequality, and Social Change; Inequality and Aging: Stratification over the Life Course; Theories of Intracohort Heterogeneity and Inequality; Economic Inequality Across Countries and Between Age-Groups; Aging Cohorts and Economic Inequality; Employment Institutions and Inequality in Old Age; State Policies, Inequality, and Aging; Conclusion; 2 Pathways to Inequality: Intracohort Differentiation over the Life Course; Aging and Social Theory: Linkages Between Work and Retirement |
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Research on Linkages Across the Life CourseAn Overview of Income Sources; Cohort Trends in Women's Lives and Intracohort Differentiation; Implications for Intracohort Variation in the Life Course; Poverty; Conclusion; 3 Asynchronous Lives: The Normal Life Course and Its Variations; The Age Integration of Lives; The Resilience of Gender Structure; Family Pathways: The Breadwinner and Role-Sharing Models; Asynchronous Lives; Studies of Asynchronous Lives and Inequality; Family-Work Pathways to Retirement; Conclusion; 4 Pathways to Retirement: The Timing of Retirement |
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Earlier and More Universal ExitInstitutional Structure and Segmentation of Work Exit; Alternate Institutional Pathways Producing Early Exit; The Intersection of Social Structure and Individual Trajectories; Conclusion; 5 Labor Markets and Occupational Welfare in the United States; From Wage Inequality to Pension Inequality; Employee Benefits as Decentralized Occupational Welfare; Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Pension Plans; The Private-Public Linkages in Occupational Welfare; Conclusion; 6 U.S. Labor Force Participation Trends in Comparative Perspective |
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Changing Patterns of Late-Life Labor Force ParticipationChanging Patterns of Employment; Social Policy and Early Exit; Future Changes; The Shifting Life Course; Conclusion; 7 Aging in the Welfare State: Strategic Cross-National Comparisons of Life Course Variability and Inequality; The Origins of Welfare States; Comparative Pathways to Variability and Inequality; Aged Inequality; Conclusion; 8 Conclusion: The Future of the Age-Structured Life Course; The Deinstitutionalization of the Life Course?; Aging Populations and Social Policies; References; Index |
| Summary |
"In the United States, older populations exhibit the highest levels of economic inequality of all age groups. Across all advanced societies, the inequalities observed in older populations stem from structural and individual processes that differentiate the life courses of women and men and yield distinctive patterns of economic inequality in adulthood and old age. Age and Inequality examines the structural and individual bases of inequality and aging in the United States, especially in recent decades. The interplay of the employment system with public and private social insurance systems operates to structure the shapes of work careers and the patterns of exit from these careers in late adulthood and old age. Gender inequality across the life course is an important element of age inequality. Labor market structure, state policies, and life course factors such as fertility and the division of household labor systematically differentiate men's and women's work careers. Aging and retirement in the twenty-first century raise concerns regarding public welfare and market policies affecting labor exits and income support systems over the next half century. Angela O'Rand and John Henretta consider the implications of the changing workplace and changing public policies for women and men."--Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Equality -- United States
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Older people -- United States -- Economic conditions
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Equality
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Older people -- Economic conditions
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United States
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Henretta, John C
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| ISBN |
9780429970993 |
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0429970994 |
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9780429982071 |
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0429982070 |
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