Retirement policies for an aging society: The case of Canada

• 발행기관: 연세대학교 사회과학연구소
• 저자명: Thomas R. Klassen
• 간행물 정보: 『사회과학논집』제38권 제1호, 106~119쪽, 전체 14쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 사회과학일반
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2007.05.30

영문 초록

Legalized mandatory retirement at age 65 is a longstanding feature of the Canadian labour market, and society. Although the highest court ruled in 1990 that such policies were legal, politicians are revising legislation to prevent involuntary retirement. As in several other Anglo Saxon countries, the combination of a strong emphasis on individual human rights – a feature of liberal market economies and liberal welfare regimes – as well as an aging population has prompted reforms to mandatory retirement policies. Labour unions have been the most opposed to removing mandatory retirement, fearing that workers will receive lower public and private pension benefits. However, a comparison with the United States, and several other nations, suggests that this need not necessarily be the case in Canada. Nevertheless, because of demographic shifts and life cycle changes, many Canadians workers–and those in other developed countries–can expect to work longer in the foreseeable than in the past.

목차

DEMOGRAPHIC CONTEXT AND THE LIFE CYCLE

THE CANADIAN WELFARE STATE

MANDATORY RETIREMENT POLICIES

CONCLUSIONS

Acknowledgements

REERENCES

키워드

Canada welfare state legalized mandatory retirement demography labour unions human rights