Format:
1 online resource (402 pages)
ISBN:
9783110617245
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Editors -- Contributors -- 1. A spotlight on health and life courses in Europe using SHARE Waves 6 and 7 -- Part I. Personality and childhood -- 2. Personality, age and the well-being of older Europeans -- 3. Personality and physical health among older Europeans -- 4. Personality traits and financial behaviour -- 5. Relationships with parents in childhood and well-being in later life -- 6. Effects of adverse childhood experiences on mental well-being later in life -- Part II. Health inequalities - Education and income -- 7. Dynamic changes in determinants of inequalities in health in Europe with a focus on retirement -- 8. Persistence in inequalities of frailty at older age: A comparison of nine EU countries -- 9. How do early-life conditions shape health age profiles late in life? -- 10. Tracking and educational inequality in health in later life -- Part III. Labour market, occupation and retirement -- 11. Long-term effects of different labour careers -- 12. The economic situation of formerly self-employed workers -- 13. Patterns of labour market participation and their impact on the well-being of older women -- 14. End-of-working-life gender wage gap: The role of health shocks, parental education and personality traits -- 15. Family dissolution and labour supply decisions over the life cycle -- 16. Working conditions and health of older workers -- Part IV. Social transitions and economic crises -- 17. Health gap in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe: A life-course perspective -- 18. What is hidden behind the 'obvious'? SHARE data raise the curtain about health, early retirement and elderly care of ageing Bulgarians -- 19. The link to the past and the post-communist welfare state -- 20. The economic crisis, fiscal austerity and long-term care: Responses of the care mix in three adjustment countries.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110617238
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783110617238
Language:
English
Keywords:
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