Format:
Online-Ressource (216 p.)
ISBN:
9780226590189
Series Statement:
NBER-Conference Report
Content:
Japanese and American economists assess the present economic status of the elderly in the United States and Japan, and consider the impact of an aging population on the economies of the two countries.With essays on labor force participation and retirement, housing equity and the economic status of the elderly, budget implications of an aging population, and financing social security and health care in the 1990s, this volume covers a broad spectrum of issues related to the economics of aging. Among the book's findings are that workers are retiring at an increasingly earlier age in both countrie
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Aging in the United States and Japan; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Aging and Labor Force Participation: A Review of Trends and Explanations; 2. Social Security Benefits and the Labor Supply of the Elderly in Japan; 3. The Economic Status of the Elderly in the United States; 4. Household Asset- and Wealthholdings in Japan; 5. Problems of Housing the Elderly in the United States and Japan; 6. The Cost of Aging: Public Finance Perspectives for Japan; 7. Financing Health Care for Elderly Americans in the 1990s; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226590219
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226590189
Additional Edition:
Print version Aging in the United States and Japan : Economic Trends
Language:
English
Keywords:
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