Preventing Ageing Unequally
Title | Preventing Ageing Unequally PDF eBook |
Author | OECD |
Publisher | OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2017-10-18 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9264279083 |
This report examines how the two global mega-trends of population ageing and rising inequalities have been developing and interacting, both within and across generations.
Pensions at a Glance 2019 OECD and G20 Indicators
Title | Pensions at a Glance 2019 OECD and G20 Indicators PDF eBook |
Author | OECD |
Publisher | OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | 180 |
Release | 2019-11-27 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9264876103 |
The 2019 edition of Pensions at a Glance highlights the pension reforms undertaken by OECD countries over the last two years. Moreover, two special chapters focus on non-standard work and pensions in OECD countries, take stock of different approaches to organising pensions for non-standard workers in the OECD, discuss why non-standard work raises pension issues and suggest how pension settings could be improved.
Working Better with Age
Title | Working Better with Age PDF eBook |
Author | OECD |
Publisher | Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Age and employment |
ISBN | 9789264201859 |
Currently, Japan has the highest old-age dependency ratio of all OECD countries, with a ratio in 2017 of over 50 persons aged 65 and above for every 100 persons aged 20 to 64. This ratio is projected to rise to 79 per hundred in 2050. The rapid population ageing in Japan is a major challenge for achieving further increases in living standards and ensuring the financial sustainability of public social expenditure. However, with the right policies in place, there is an opportunity to cope with this challenge by extending working lives and making better use of older workers' knowledge and skills. This report investigates policy issues and discusses actions to retain and incentivise the elderly to work more by further reforming retirement policies and seniority-wages, investing in skills to improve productivity and keeping up with labour market changes through training policy, and ensuring good working conditions for better health with tackling long-hours working culture.
Ageing, Diversity and Equality
Title | Ageing, Diversity and Equality PDF eBook |
Author | Sue Westwood |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 391 |
Release | 2018-10-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1351851314 |
Current understandings of ageing and diversity are impoverished in three main ways. Firstly, with regards to thinking about what inequalities operate in later life there has been an excessive preoccupation with economic resources. On the other hand, less attention has been paid to cultural norms and values, other resources, wider social processes, political participation and community engagement. Secondly, in terms of thinking about the ‘who’ of inequality, this has so far been limited to a very narrow range of minority populations. Finally, when considering the ‘how’ of inequality, social gerontology’s theoretical analyses remain under-developed. The overall effect of these issues is that social gerontology remains deeply embedded in normative assumptions which serve to exclude a wide range of older people. Ageing, Diversity and Equality aims to challenge and provoke the above described normativity and offer an alternative approach which highlights the heterogeneity and diversity of ageing, associated inequalities and their intersections. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351851329, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 licence.
Ageing and Employment Policies: United States 2018 Working Better with Age and Fighting Unequal Ageing
Title | Ageing and Employment Policies: United States 2018 Working Better with Age and Fighting Unequal Ageing PDF eBook |
Author | OECD |
Publisher | OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | 148 |
Release | 2018-01-24 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9264190112 |
This report looks at the various pathways out of the labour market for older workers in the United States and at how employers can be supported to retain and hire older workers.
What We Owe Each Other
Title | What We Owe Each Other PDF eBook |
Author | Minouche Shafik |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2022-08-23 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 069120764X |
From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thrive Whether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, paying taxes, and benefiting from public services define the social contract that supports and binds us together as a society. Today, however, our social contract has been broken by changing gender roles, technology, new models of work, aging, and the perils of climate change. Minouche Shafik takes us through stages of life we all experience—raising children, getting educated, falling ill, working, growing old—and shows how a reordering of our societies is possible. Drawing on evidence and examples from around the world, she shows how every country can provide citizens with the basics to have a decent life and be able to contribute to society. But we owe each other more than this. A more generous and inclusive society would also share more risks collectively and ask everyone to contribute for as long as they can so that everyone can fulfill their potential. What We Owe Each Other identifies the key elements of a better social contract that recognizes our interdependencies, supports and invests more in each other, and expects more of individuals in return. Powerful, hopeful, and thought-provoking, What We Owe Each Other provides practical solutions to current challenges and demonstrates how we can build a better society—together.
Preventing Dementia?
Title | Preventing Dementia? PDF eBook |
Author | Annette Leibing |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | 268 |
Release | 2020-10-06 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 1789209102 |
The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several risk factors, a prevention of dementia is possible. Although encouraging and providing hope against this feared condition, this claim is open to scrutiny. This volume looks at how this new conceptualization ignores many of the factors which influence a dementia sufferers’ prognosis, including their history with education, food and exercise as well as their living in different epistemic cultures. The central aim is to question the concept of prevention and analyze its impact on aging people and aging societies.