The evolution of retirement : an American economic history, 1880-1990
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The evolution of retirement : an American economic history, 1880-1990
（NBER series on long-term factors in economic development / editors, Robert W. Fogel and Clayne L. Pope）
University of Chicago Press, 1998
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Available at 39 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-225) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
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: cloth ISBN 9780226116082
Description
The Evolution of Retirement is the first comprehensive economic history of retirement in America. With life expectancies steadily increasing, the retirement rate of men over 64 has risen drastically. Dora Costa looks at factors underlying this increase and shows the dramatic implications of her findings for both the general public and the U.S. government. With the aid of economic, statistical, and demographic concepts, Costa explains trends in retirement data. Her examination sheds light on such important topics as rising incomes and retirement, work and disease, the job prospects of older workers, elderly living arrangements, the rise of a retirement lifestyle, and pensions and politics. She concludes with a look into the future and further evolution of retirement, addressing perhaps the most vexing problem of retirement policy, the impact of the aging Baby Boom generation on the Social Security System.
Table of Contents
Preface 1: The Problem of Old Age 2: The Evolution of Retirement 3: Income and Retirement 4: Work and Disease 5: The Older Worker 6: Displacing the Family 7: The Rise of the Leisured Class 8: Pensions and Politics 9: Looking to the Future App. A: Union Army Pensions and Civil War Records References Name Index Subject Index
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: pbk. ISBN 9780226116099
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Winner of the 1998 Paul A. Samuelson Award given by TIAA-CREF, The Evolution of Retirement is the first comprehensive economic history of retirement in America. With life expectancies steadily increasing, the retirement rate of men over age 64 has risen drastically. Dora L. Costa looks at factors underlying this increase and shows the dramatic implications of her findings for both the general public and the U.S. government. Using statistical, and demographic concepts, Costa sheds light on such important topics as rising incomes and retirement, work and disease, the job prospects of older workers, living arrangements of the elderly, the development of a retirement lifestyle, and pensions and politics.
"[Costa's] major contribution is to show that, even without Social Security and Medicare, retirement would have expanded dramatically."-Robert J. Samuelson, New Republic
"An important book on a topic which has become popular with historians and is of major significance to politicians and economists."-Margaret Walsh, Business History
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