Can we afford to grow older? : a perspective on the economics of aging / Richard Disney.

By:

Disney, Richard

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0585030960
9780585030968
026227177X
9780262271776

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Can we afford to grow older?.DDC classification:

305.26 20

LOC classification:

HQ1061 .D56 1996eb

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Contents:

A burden of dependency? 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 -- A public-choice perspective -- Some salient conclusions.

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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-338) and index.

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.