Ageing, Justice, and Work: Alternatives to Mandatory Retirement

Halliday, Daniel; Parr, Tom

doi:10.1017/9781108861168.017

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“…Such incentives-inducing retirement will likely increase the economic prospects of us all ex ante, i.e. before we know how long we will 19 See Halliday and Parr (2022) for a recent discussion of "the argument from capped rewards" which supports mandatory (old-age) retirement as a way of structuring a worker's wages optimally throughout life.…”

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Longevity and Age-Group Justice

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2024

LEAP

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Justice Across Ages offers an attractive account of justice between the young and the old that brings together three notable principles of age-group justice: complete-lives equality, relational equality, and prudence. Yet, the book says little about the fact that many of us live longer than others, and the little it does say casts doubt on whether lifespan inequality threatens justice as construed by the three principles. This essay argues, instead, that theories of justice between the young and the old should not dispense with a conception of justice between different longevity groups. It concludes that we must be sensitive to lifespan variations when designing policies to promote justice across age groups.

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Longevity and Age-Group Justice

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2024

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“…Halliday and Parr point out that the productivity of a group of workers might be enhanced by the "the presence of workers who have been in the same firm for a long time. These workers may possess valuable 'institutional memory' and other skills that accrue as a result of familiarity with the workplace and/or its industry" (Halliday & Parr, 2022a). There is also evidence that different kinds of intelligence may peak at different ages, with younger people excelling at understanding relationships among the components of an abstract problem and applying that understanding to solve problems, and older people performing better on tasks requiring discriminatory habits and an accumulation of knowledge (Horn & Cattell, 1967).…”

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“…Halliday and Parr discuss a version of years-worked mandatory retirement, in which mandating retirement accelerates the rate of job turnover, resulting in more jobs being created over time, each for a shorter duration (Halliday & Parr, 2022b). For example, over the course of a century or so, a firm might hire 4 people for an average of 25 years each, rather than 3 people for an average of 33 years.…”

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The dignity of work: An ethical argument against mandatory retirement

Jecker

2022

Journal of Social Philosophy

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Working Retirees? A Liberal Case for Retirement as Free Time

Valente

2024

Ethic Theory Moral Prac

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Retirement is often viewed as a reward for a working life. While many have reason to want a work-free retirement, not everyone does. Should working retirees have to give up their retirement pension and, consequently, their status as retirees? The answer, I argue, boils down to whether we conceive of retirement as free time (need-free) or as leisure (work-free). In this article, I put forward a liberal case in favour of free time, despite whether our liberalism leans towards perfectionism or neutralism, with social primary goods being a case in point. Applying this case for free time to retirement yields two significant policy implications. First, it demands “free synchronic combination” – that retirees may use their retirement pensions however they see fit, including to work. Second, it also yields “free diachronic combination” – that, within limits, individuals have discretionary control over how to combine retirement and work across time – thus challenging the idea that retirement should be available only in old age and not earlier in life. So far, the literature on free time focused only on narrow temporal units, such as hours and days, but there is much to gain by extending the concept into retirement.

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Ageing, Justice, and Work: Alternatives to Mandatory Retirement

Cited by 6 publications

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Longevity and Age-Group Justice

Longevity and Age-Group Justice

The dignity of work: An ethical argument against mandatory retirement

Working Retirees? A Liberal Case for Retirement as Free Time

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