Transition from working life to retirement tends to change or even to fade, sociologists observe
The last issue of the Swiss Journal of Sociology addresses the transformations of retirement policies. Edited by René Knüsel, Jean-François Bickel, François Höpflinger, and Béatrice Vatron-Steiner, it presents a broad overview of the issues and tensions around retirement policies in Switzerland and also by comparison in other European countries.
This special issue on pension policy seeks to develop a broad perspective on actual and planned changes in this particularly sensitive area of social policy and, more generally, of population management. The reforms announced in Switzerland in particular will have important consequences for future generations of retirees. But changes are already underway and the transition from working life to retirement tends to change or even to fade. The same retired status is envolving, since the principles of activation, recommended for all persons for the benefit of state intervention, now also apply to pensioners. The use of concepts like “seniors at work” or “professionally active retirees” shows the relativity of these limits.
Among the seven articles following the editors' introduction, three are authored by researchers who have a link with the NCCR LIVES. Here are their titles and abstracts.
Subjective Well-being: The Impact of the Transition to Retirement in Switzerland
By Boris Wernli, Valérie-Anne Ryser, and Carmen Borrat-Besson
Confronting Active Ageing with Empirical Evidence: A Structural Equation ModelApproach. The Case of Older Migrants Living in Switzerland
By Laure Kaeser and Jonathan Zufferey
The Persistence of Social Stratification? A Life Course Perspective on Poverty in Old-Age in Switzerland
By Rainer Gabriel, Michel Oris, Matthias Studer, and Marie Baeriswyl
Source: http://www.sgs-sss.ch/en-sociojournal-actual_number
>> René Knüsel, Jean-François Bickel, François Höpflinger, Béatrice Vatron-Steiner (Eds.). (2015). Transformations of retirement policies. Swiss Journal of Sociology. 41 (3), Special Issue.