ISBN:
0585030960
,
9780585030968
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 344 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Disney, Richard Can we afford to grow older?
DDC:
305.26
Keywords:
Aging Economic aspects
;
Older people Economic conditions
;
Age distribution (Demography)
;
Old age pensions
;
Aging Economic aspects
;
Older people Economic conditions
;
Dependency (Psychology)
;
Economics
;
Employment
;
Financial Management
;
Health Services
;
Income
;
Population Dynamics
;
Private Sector
;
Social Security
;
Delivery of Health Care
;
Financing, Government
;
Developed countries
;
Dependency, Psychological
;
Age distribution (Demography)
;
Aging ; Economic aspects
;
Old age pensions
;
Older people ; Economic conditions
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gerontology
;
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Aging
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book is concerned with the economic consequences of the dramatic current and prospective demographic changes that are occurring in Western industrialized countries. There are chapters on the dependency burden aspects of Social Security programs and intergenerational redistribution; overlapping-generations models, feasible pension schemes, and aging populations; Social Security: paying for past pension promises; private pension plans in the demographic transition; productivity, wages, and educational attainment: the impact of workforce aging; retirement: the labor supply of older workers in an aging society; consumption and saving: life-cycle behavior and population aging; financing health care; and a public-choice perspective
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-338) and index. - Description based on print version record
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