Redundancy and early retirement: the interaction of public and private policy in Britain, Germany and the USA

Article Abstract:

Companies in Germany, the UK and US have all made use of early retirement as a means of cutting staff, the feeling being that older workers are less productive than prime-age workers and that encouraging early retirement is preferable to making employees compulsorily redundant. While Germany provides more generous state provision for workers taking early retirement than the UK or US, employers' preference for voluntary redundancies makes it likely that they will continue to use early retirement as a means of shedding labour, even when the state bears virtually none of the cost.

Social aspects, Germany, Early retirement

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Who controls selection under 'voluntary' redundancy? The case of the Redundant Mineworkers Payments Scheme

Article Abstract:

Recent research has looked at the impact of the Redundant Mineworkers Payments Scheme of 1984, one of many voluntary redundant schemes making extra-statutory redundancy payments in the UK, on the extent of redundancy and how the selection for redundancy among coal industry workers was made. It was found that workers were considerably influenced by voluntary redundancy payments, and that in accepting these payments effectively lost any right to influence the scale of and selection in redundancy.

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A Disaggregate Analysis of the Evolution of Job Tenure in Britain, 1975-1993

Article Abstract:

Research on job tenure or duration in the United Kingdom reveals similar paths in both individual and aggregate categories. Analyses controlling for characteristics such as occupation, education, industry, age and demographics showed the same path for employees in short-term jobs and longer jobs as the overall unconditional analysis. Time variances do not produce secular changes.

United Kingdom, Demographic aspects, Career changes, Job security

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