The Red-Haired Barbarian from Leiden. An Interview with Leonard Blussé

Itinerario ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-24
Author(s):  
Carolien Stolte ◽  
Alicia Schrikker ◽  
Frans-Paul van der Putten
Keyword(s):  
High Time ◽  
Mandatory Retirement ◽  
Retirement Age ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
Approaches To Teaching ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
Personal Interests

You have reached the mandatory retirement age of 65 and gave your farewell lecture on 6 June last. High time to have an interview with you! After Itinerario was founded by George Winius and you in 1976, you yourself did many of the interviews. Interviews were and still are rather uncommon in scholarly journals. Why did you start them?It was a mixture of egoism and curiosity. We meant the journal to be a research journal, so apart from publishing articles we had two things in mind: to speak with prominent people active in the field and also to do special reports on archives and research institutions. George and I loved to ask colleagues about their backgrounds, their personal interests and their approaches to teaching and research. The interviews worked out well, but it turned out to be very difficult to find people who were willing to write about their experiences in foreign archives.

Key military appointment shores up Jokowi’s stability

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Mandatory Retirement ◽  
Retirement Age ◽  
Intelligence Agency ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Security Personnel

Significance Andika is the son-in-law of AM Hendropriyono, a retired general and former head of the State Intelligence Agency who is an influential adviser to Jokowi. Andika's appointment will run to December 2022, when he will reach the mandatory retirement age of 58. Impacts Deployment of security personnel to Papua will increase. Jokowi will continue to rely heavily on Hendropriyono’s advice. As with Andika’s appointment, political calculations will be key in Jokowi’s next pick as TNI chief.

scholarly journals Protreptikos - the Exhortation for Scientific Tourism

2011 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerzy Kosiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Personal Satisfaction ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Specific Field ◽  
Extra Effort ◽  
New Locations ◽  
Linguistic Challenges

Protreptikos - the Exhortation for Scientific TourismThe presented paper focuses primarily on the tourism activities of teaching staff at universities and other research institutions. This applies in particular to travel during which the principal purpose is, inter alia, various exploratory internships, conferences, trips as a guest professor or a visiting professor under the auspices of the Erasmus and Erasmus Mundus programs. These peregrinations require extra effort, not only with regards to teaching and research duties, but also present opportunities to confront, test and evaluate one's own research results and outlook with new listeners in new locations in different environments. This travel especially applies to the foreign environment, a situation that presents high degrees of professional, scientific and linguistic challenges, resulting in increased contributions and activity to the specific field of science. Regardless of the workload and the difficulties of the discussed travel, such travel can also bring about much personal satisfaction: a) due to a sense of a well done job as a result of meeting expectations of the employer and the host placed on the ‘messenger of science’ and b) due to the pleasure associated with those tourist experiences having autotelic and pragmatic (instrumental) overtones.

scholarly journals Does a raised mandatory retirement age influence managers’ attitudes to older workers?

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (02) ◽  
pp. 122-136
Author(s):  
Per Erik Solem ◽  
Robert H. Salomon ◽  
Hans Christoffer Aargaard Terjesen
Keyword(s):  
Older Workers ◽  
Mandatory Retirement ◽  
Retirement Age

scholarly journals EMPLOYMENT AFTER NORMAL RETIREMENT AGE: EMPLOYERS’ MOTIVES AND EXPERIENCES

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S129-S130
Author(s):  
Jaap Oude Mulders
Keyword(s):  
Older Workers ◽  
Population Aging ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Mandatory Retirement ◽  
Retirement Age ◽  
Opportunity Structures ◽  
Labor Market Dynamics ◽  
Employment Rates ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Retirement Systems

Abstract Due to population aging, older workers in developed countries are working much longer than previous cohorts. Some older workers even extend their careers beyond normal retirement age – or the age that is traditionally associated with retirement. While earlier work has studied employees’ motives and experiences while working after normal retirement age, motives and experiences of employers remain unexplored. Understanding employers’ perspectives is imperative for a better grasp of employees’ opportunity structures and labor market dynamics. This is especially relevant in countries with mandatory retirement systems, since here employer and employee need to negotiate a new contract after normal retirement age. I study employers’ motives to and experiences with employing older workers after normal retirement age using data from a 2017 survey among 1,312 Dutch employers. The Netherlands has mandatory retirement regulations but is also seeing an increase in employment rates after normal retirement age. Results show that 54% of employers have, in recent years, employed one or more older workers beyond their normal retirement age. This is especially common in education. 70% of employers are very positive about their previous experiences with employing older workers after normal retirement age, mostly because they had rehired older workers with unique knowledge and experience. However, employers also hardly ever took the initiative for such employment arrangements, instead leaving it to the older workers to show the desire to continue working. Although employers are largely positive, they see it as a limited phenomenon, and do not consider it a solution to labor shortages.

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