TY - CHAP

T1 - Flexible transitions from work to retirement in Germany

AU - Deller, Jürgen

AU - Pundt, Leena

PY - 2014/4

Y1 - 2014/4

N2 - Recently the broader German public and actors of the labor market have become more aware of challenges of the demographic change. The current debate started with the gradual increase of the retirement age to 67 in Germany, which was decided on in 2007 and has been the subject of controversy since then. Gradually also the phenomenon of work beyond retirement is being discussed. Following the very first analysis of Deller and Maxin (2009) of German microcensus data for work in retirement, Micheel and Panova (2013) also used microcensus data to look into two decades of work in retirement. These developments take place a few years before the retirement of the first German baby boomer cohorts and their necessary replacement in the labor market with cohorts that are smaller by hundreds of thousands of individuals per year. As a consequence, we can notice a growing interest in the intentions and behaviors of retiring cohorts regarding work in retirement.

AB - Recently the broader German public and actors of the labor market have become more aware of challenges of the demographic change. The current debate started with the gradual increase of the retirement age to 67 in Germany, which was decided on in 2007 and has been the subject of controversy since then. Gradually also the phenomenon of work beyond retirement is being discussed. Following the very first analysis of Deller and Maxin (2009) of German microcensus data for work in retirement, Micheel and Panova (2013) also used microcensus data to look into two decades of work in retirement. These developments take place a few years before the retirement of the first German baby boomer cohorts and their necessary replacement in the labor market with cohorts that are smaller by hundreds of thousands of individuals per year. As a consequence, we can notice a growing interest in the intentions and behaviors of retiring cohorts regarding work in retirement.

KW - Business psychology

KW - Older people employment

KW - age and employment

KW - retirees employment

KW - post-retirement employment

KW - bridge employment

KW - silver work

KW - Psychology

KW - Management studies

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84924038716&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.4324/9780203383100

DO - 10.4324/9780203383100

M3 - Chapter

SN - 9780415829090

T3 - Routledge studies in human resource development

SP - 167

EP - 192

BT - Bridge employment

A2 - Alcover, Carlos-Maria

A2 - Topa, Gabriela

A2 - Parry, Emma

A2 - Fraccaroli, Franco

A2 - Depolo, Marco

PB - Routledge Taylor & Francis Group

CY - New York

ER -