The budget battles of recent years have amplified the warnings of demographic doomsayers who predicted that a wave of baby boomers would bleed America dry, bankrupting Social Security and Medicare as they faded into an impoverished old age. On the contrary, argues award-winning …
The inspiration for this book arose from the opening of the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus route on 7 April 2005, the first direct link between the two parts of divided Kashmir since 1947. The original impetus for change in the region arose not from politicians but from ex-military f…
In the last century, changes to the nature and patterns of women's working lives have been vast. Notably, the huge increase in women's participation in the paid workforce means that today women are retiring in unprecedented numbers. How do they cope with this lifestyle transitio…
For many today, retirement and the leisure said to accompany it have become vestiges of a slower, long-lost time. In a world where the sense of identity is tied to work and careers, to stop working often is to become nobody. In this deeply perceptive and personal exploration of …
" ... Papers presented at a National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on the Economics of Aging, in Carefree, Arizona, in May 1988" -- p. 1.
Während die transnationale Migrationsforschung sich vor allem mit erwerbstätigen MigrantInnen und den Logiken der Arbeitswelt befasst, wird immer deutlicher, dass sich auch ältere Menschen an saisonalen grenzüberschreitenden Ortswechseln beteiligen. Berufliche Entpflichtung, ein…
Während die transnationale Migrationsforschung sich vor allem mit erwerbstätigen MigrantInnen und den Logiken der Arbeitswelt befasst, wird immer deutlicher, dass sich auch ältere Menschen an saisonalen grenzüberschreitenden Ortswechseln beteiligen. Berufliche Entpflichtung, ein…
America is witnessing a retirement crisis. As the labor market shifts to the gig economy and new strains restrict social security, the American Dream of secure retirement becomes further out of reach for up to half of the population. In Waiting on Retirement, Mary Gatta takes th…
