ISBN:
9783642126123
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XV, 123 p. 18 illus, online resource)
Series Statement:
Demographic Research Monographs, A series of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Population ageing - a threat to the welfare state?
Keywords:
Alternde Bevölkerung
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Sozialstaat
;
Finanzierung der Sozialversicherung
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Schweden
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Economics
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Public finance
;
Economic policy
;
Social policy
;
Population
;
Aging
;
Demography
;
Economics
;
Population
;
Finance
;
Social policy
;
Aging Research
;
Demography
;
œaAgingœxResearch
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œaDemography
;
œaEconomics
;
œaFinance
;
œaPopulation
;
œaSocial policy
;
Schweden
;
Bevölkerungsentwicklung
;
Altersstruktur
;
Wohlfahrtsstaat
;
Sozialpolitik
;
Finanzierung
;
Schweden
;
Bevölkerungsentwicklung
;
Altersstruktur
;
Wohlfahrtsstaat
;
Sozialpolitik
;
Finanzierung
Abstract:
The Ageing Population -- In This World Nothing Is Certain but Death and Taxes: Financing the Elderly -- A Stable Pension System: The Eighth Wonder -- Ways of Funding and Organising Elderly Care in Sweden -- Financing Healthcare: A Gordian Knot Waiting to Be Cut -- Towards a New Swedish Model?
Abstract:
This book is the first to take a comprehensive view of the challenges that population ageing present in the near future taking Sweden as the case. Can the increasing number of retirees per worker be stopped by immigration or increasing fertility or will we need to increase pension age instead? Cost for the social-care system is readily increasing; even more is the costs for health care. Can the galloping costs be funded by an increase in taxes or do we need to make reforms, similar to the ones already made in the pension system, which has been used as a model for many other countries. The fact that it is difficult to make health care dependent on personal contributions, as is the case of the pension system, funding of health care is a true test of solidarity across generations. The book ends with a discussion on whether the demographic challenge to the welfare system is also a threat to the welfare state as such
Description / Table of Contents:
Population Ageing - A Threat to the Welfare State?; The Case of Sweden; Contents; Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction; References; Chapter 2: The Ageing Population; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Fundamentals of Population Ageing; 2.3 Consequences of an Ageing Population; 2.4 Can We Increase Fertility?; 2.5 Is Immigration the Answer?; 2.6 Other Ways to Solve the Problem?; 2.7 Summary; References; Chapter 3: In This World Nothing Is Certain but Death and Taxes: Financing the Elderly; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Background; 3.3 Are Increased Taxes the Solution?
Description / Table of Contents:
3.3.1 Increasing Tax Rates: A Non-solution3.3.1.1 Increasing the World´s Highest Labour Tax Rates: A Non-solution; 3.3.1.2 Increasing Taxes on Mobile Capital: A Non-solution; 3.3.2 Increasing the Tax Base: A Partial Solution; 3.3.2.1 Increasing the Tax Base on the Labour Side; Increasing Productivity; 3.3.2.2 Increasing the Tax Base on the Capital Side; 3.4 Discussion and Conclusions; References; Chapter 4: A Stable Pension System: The Eighth Wonder; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Swedish Pension History; 4.3 Ageing and Pensions; 4.4 Pensions in Sweden: A 4-tier System
Description / Table of Contents:
4.5 Financial Stability in the Swedish Pension System4.6 Political Sustainability; 4.6.1 Fairness as an Estimate of Sustainability; 4.6.1.1 A Fair Outcome; 4.6.1.2 A Fair Procedure; 4.6.2 A Fair Starting Point?; 4.6.3 When Contributions Deviate from Benefits, i.e. Deviations from the DC Feature; 4.6.4 Indexing; 4.7 Concluding Comments; References; Chapter 5: Ways of Funding and Organising Elderly Care in Sweden; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Establishment of Old People´s Homes; 5.3 The Development of Home Help Services; 5.4 Times of Reappraisal Around 1990
Description / Table of Contents:
5.5 Elderly Care of Today and Future Challenges5.6 Financing of Elderly Care; 5.7 Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: Financing Healthcare: A Gordian Knot Waiting to Be Cut; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The Swedish Healthcare System; 6.3 Simulating the Development of Inpatient Care 2000-2040; 6.3.1 Some Characteristics of the Simulation Model; 6.3.2 Base-Case Scenario; 6.3.3 Improved Health Progression with and Without Decreased Risk of Death; 6.3.4 Incomes of People in Old Age; 6.4 Not a Non-issue; 6.5 Non-solution One: Technological Development; 6.6 Non-solution Two: Institutional Change
Description / Table of Contents:
6.7 Non-solution Three: Explicit Priority Setting (or Do We Believe in the QALY and Nothing but the QALY?)6.8 Towards a Non-non-solution (or Simulating to Have an Answer); References; Chapter 7: Towards a New Swedish Model?; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 The Swedish Model So Far; 7.3 The Demographic Challenges; 7.4 Concluding Discussion; References; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-12612-3
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