Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 252 pages)
ISBN:
9780429970993
Inhalt:
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 -- Research on Linkages Across the Life Course -- An 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 -- Earlier and More Universal Exit -- Institutional 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 -- Changing Patterns of Late-Life Labor Force Participation.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780813398129
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe O'Rand, Angela M. Age and inequality Boulder, Colo. [u.a.] : Westview Press, 1999 ISBN 0813398126
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0813319064
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Soziologie
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