Reconstructing Retirement

David Lain is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Brighton. His research on older workers and retirement has led to a series of journal articles, book chapters, reports, media appearances and presentations to international policy audiences. He led the ESRC `Rethinking Retirement’ Seminar Series and received a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in 2011.

• Introduction: Reconstructing retirement;Part One: The reconstruction of retirement policy;Changing retirement incomes;The changing regulation of work and retirement;Part Two: Reconstructing employment and retirement behaviour;Pathways to working at age 65+;The capability to work at age 65+;The choice to work at age 65+;Part Three: Current paths and policy alternatives;Current paths and policy alternatives;References;Statistical appendix.

"This book is to be highly recommended as making an important contribution to understanding the shifting nature of retirement. Policymakers and older people’s advocacy organizations would be well advised to carefully weigh its implications, striking as it does a welcome and rare cautionary note." Journal of Ageing and Social Policy