The main objective of this volume is to "map" the most important institutional changes at the end of a normal working life. The textbook offers a comparative analysis of how European welfare states handle ageing and the move towards retirement.

This book offers a refined and authoritative understanding of the changing ways the end of the working life is organized under different welfare state arrangements in ten EU countries plus Hungary, Slovakia and Norway. The authors consider: how changes in work and the life-course affect the relationship between ageing and work; which "pathways" out of the working life are available and what programmes or initiatives have been developed to change early exit into late exit or to re-integrate older workers in the labour market; and what the individual perspective on the relation between ageing and work is and how different institutions design the life course.

Age arrangements, age culture and social citizenship, Bert de Vroom with Tony Maltby and Einar Overbye
Norway - still high employment among older workers, Per Erik Solem and Einar Overbye
Ageing and work: from "early" exit to "late" exit in Denmark, Per H. Jensen
From early exit culture to the policy of active ageing - the case of Finland, Raija Gould and Laura Saurama
Early retirement in Germany, Christina Teipen and Martin Kohli
The shift from early to late exit - changing institutional conditions and individual preferences - the case of the Netherlands, Bert de Vroom
Belgium - from early to progressive retirement?, Laura Merla
France - a country with a deep early exit culture, Anne-Marie Guillemard and Dominique Argoud
A "New Deal" for older workers in the UK?, Philip Taylor
Ageing and the labour market in Hungary, Zsuzsa Szeman
The older population on the labour market in Slovenia situation and policies, Dorotea Versa
Ageing and work in Italy, Maria-Luisa Mirabile
Ageing and work in Spain - the end of working life, Anabel Suso Araico.