Dissertation_Paula Aleksandrowicz_12 ... - Jacobs University

List of Tables
Table 1: Crucial pension and labour market incentives and disincentives in
Germany and Poland .................................................................................9
Table 2: Crucial pension reforms in Germany since 1972 ....................................45
Table 3: Retirement pathways and pensionable ages in Germany as of Jan.
2008 .........................................................................................................49
Table 4: Average age of take-up of pensions in Western Germany, 1970-2006...57
Table 5: Planned average age of exit from the labour market...............................63
Table 6: Crucial pension reforms in Poland since 1989........................................71
Table 7: Average age of take-up of pensions in Poland, 1978 and 1992-2006.....83
Table 8: Planned age of exit from the labour market ............................................86
Table 9: Optimum retirement age for women in the opinion of Polish respondents,
1999-2007................................................................................................87
Table 10: Country values on supply-side variables which have a positive impact
on the prolongation of working life.......................................................95
Table 11: Sectoral distribution of workers aged 50 years and more in Germany
and Poland (2008)..................................................................................97
Table 12: Figures on labour relations..................................................................100
Table 13: Country values on demand-side variables which have a positive impact
on the prolongation of working life.....................................................101
Table 14: Firms´ basic employment/retirement strategies ..................................104
Table 15: Establishments studied in Western Germany in spring 2004..............113
Table 16: Focus of personnel policy with regard to older workers .....................118
Table 17: Establishments studied in Western Germany in autumn 2006/spring
2007 .....................................................................................................133
Table 18: Testing of hypothesis 3........................................................................137
Table 19: German firm typology.........................................................................160
Table 20: Establishments studied in Southern Poland in spring 2005 (HRM) and
spring 2006 (TU) .................................................................................166
Table 21: Focus of personnel policy in Polish establishments............................171
Table 22: Testing of hypothesis 3........................................................................192
Table 23: Polish firm typology............................................................................211
Table 24: National patterns of internalisation and externalisation of older
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