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Government spending on the elderly / edited by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou.
Van Pelt Library HQ1064.U5 G566 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Older people--Government policy--United States.
- Older people.
- Older people--Government policy.
- Age distribution (Demography)--Economic aspects.
- Age distribution (Demography).
- United States.
- Social security--United States.
- Social security.
- Old age assistance--United States.
- Old age assistance.
- Older people--United States--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Age distribution (Demography)--Economic aspects--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Summary:
- This book examines the many economic and budgetary aspects of aging, and of an aging population, exploring the welfare state and incentives to retire, the macroeconomic and fiscal implications of aging and the long-run effects of government spending on the elderly
- Contents:
- Economic perspectives on aging : an overview
- European welfare state regimes and their generosity toward the elderly
- Global demographic trends and provisioning for the future
- Net government expenditures and the economic well-being of the elderly in the United States, 1989-2001
- Differing prospects for women and men : young old-age, old old-age, and eldercare
- Working for a good retirement
- Net intergenerational transfers from an increase in Social Security benefits
- The changing role of employer pensions : tax expenditures, costs, and implications for middle-class elderly
- Retiree health benefit coverage and retirement
- Population forecasts, fiscal policy, and risk
- Wage growth and the measurement of Social Security's financial condition
- The adequacy of retirement resources among the soon-to-retire, 1983-2001
- Minimum benefits in Social Security.
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0230500617
- 9780230500617
- OCLC:
- 140104423
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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