Ending a Career in the Auto Industry “30 and Out” /

• Main Authors: Hardy, Melissa A. (Author), Hazelrigg, Lawrence (Author), Quadagno, Jill (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 1996.
• Series: Springer Studies in Work and Industry
• Subjects: Business.; Management science.; Political science.; Population.; Sociology.; Business and Management.; Business and Management, general.; Political Science.; Population Economics.; Sociology, general.

During the 1980s the news media were filled with reports of soaring unemployment as 'downsizing' and `restructuring' became the new buzzwords. Firms managed their workforce reduction by increasing the attractiveness of their pension plans-especially their early-retirement plans. In th...

Table of Contents:

• Internal Labor Markets, Plant Closings, and Retirement
• Some Matters of Context
• The Financial Structure of Early-Retirement Pensions
• Predicting Early Retirement
• Discussing Options in an End-Game
• Solidarity and “Generational Equity”
• Aspects of Postretirement Satisfaction
• Inducing Early Retirement: Some Conclusions in Perspective.