Functional Substitutes,Systematic Expansion,and Institutional Coordination of Delayed Retirement Policies
The conventional approach to delayed retirement policies encounters significant bottlenecks in international practice and has proved to be increasingly incongruent with China's objectives for promoting delayed retirement.This underscores the impera-tive to break free from prevailing policy paradigms and seek innovative breakthroughs in policy formulation.At the heart of delayed re-tirement policies lies the aim to restructure workers'life trajectories.Achieving this entails replacing delayed pension withdrawals with an equitable and clear pension system,offering diversified employment opportunities instead of rigid career continuations,and fostering a fresh mindset to propel the advancement of delayed retirement policies.Based on the guarantee and clarity of the pension system,the continuity and intersectionality of life trajectories,the age-appropriateness and transitional nature of retirement stages,a systematic functional decomposition of delayed retirement policies is essential.This approach aims to drive the coordinated optimiza-tion of the pension system and labor employment system,strengthen elderly labor capacity maintenance,and enhance the coordina-tion of diverse roles in aging.By methodically expanding and mutually reinforcing delayed retirement policies,a viable pathway can be forged to transform these policies from passive and negative to proactive and constructive.
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