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v. 1B ISBN 9780444538406
Description
Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, Volume 1B provides the economic literature on aging and associated subjects, presenting comprehensive portraits of both social and theoretical issues. As the second of two volumes in this series on the economics of population aging, it continues the discussion, delving deeper into topics such as the labor market and human resource issues, gerontology, history, and the sociological and political ramifications of this fascinating topic whose inception dates back to the late 1970's.
This volume includes literature that has appeared in general economics journals, in various field journals in economics, especially, but not exclusively, those covering labor market and human resource issues, information from interdisciplinary social science and life science journals, and data presented in papers by economists published in journals associated with gerontology, history, sociology, political science, and demography, amongst others.
Table of Contents
The Anatomy of Aging
1. Demographics Globally and Through Time
David Bloom and Dara Lee Luca
The Household Perspective
2. Labour Force Participation and the Retirement Decision
Richard Blundell and Eric French
3. Conflict and Cooperation within the Family, and between the State and the Family, in the Provision of Old-Age Security
Alessandro Cigno
4. Consumption and Saving
Orazio Attanasio, Sagri Kitao, Guglielmo Weber and Andrea Bonfatti
5. Decision-making, Markets and Cognitive Decline
Michael Keane and Susan Thorp
6. Investment and Portfolio Allocation
Raimond Maurer and Barbara Kaschuetzke
Economic Impacts of Population Aging
7. Macroeconomics, Aging and Growth
Ronald Lee
8. Insurance Markets for the Elderly
Hanming Fang
9. Economic Aspects of Occupational Pensions
Olivia S. Mitchell and John Piggott
10. The Political Economy of Population Aging
Georges Casamatta and Loic Batte
11. Migration and Demographic Shift
Klaus F. Zimmermann and Anzelika Zaiceva
12. Longevity and Morbidity Projections
Michael Sherris
13. Intergenerational Risk Sharing
Roel Beetsma and Ward Romp
Public Policy with an Aging Population
14. Taxation
Alan Woodland and John Piggott
15. Aging and Poverty
Timothy Michael Smeeding and Joseph Marchand
16. Social Security and Public Insurance
Axel Borsch-Supan
17. Health and Long Term Care
Edward Norton
18. Population Aging Data Sets and their Analysis
James P. Smith and Isabella Dobrescu
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v. 1A ISBN 9780444538420
Description
Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, Volume 1A, provides the economic literature on aging and associated subjects, including social insurance and healthcare costs. This text explores the economic literature on aging and associated subjects, including social insurance, health care costs, the interests of policymakers, and the role of academics. As the first of two volumes, users will find it a great resource on the topics associated with the economics of aging.
Together with its companion, volume 1B, this work includes literature that has appeared in general economics journals, in various field journals in economics, especially, but not exclusively, those covering labor market and human resource issues, information from interdisciplinary social science and life science journals, and data presented in papers by economists published in journals associated with gerontology, history, sociology, political science, and demography, amongst others.
Table of Contents
The Anatomy of Aging
1. Demographics Globally and Through Time
David Bloom and Dara Lee Luca
The Household Perspective
2. Labour Force Participation and the Retirement Decision
Richard Blundell and Eric French
3. Conflict and Cooperation within the Family, and between the State and the Family, in the Provision of Old-Age Security
Alessandro Cigno
4. Consumption and Saving
Orazio Attanasio, Sagri Kitao, Guglielmo Weber and Andrea Bonfatti
5. Decision-making, Markets and Cognitive Decline
Michael Keane and Susan Thorp
6. Investment and Portfolio Allocation
Raimond Maurer and Barbara Kaschuetzke
Economic Impacts of Population Aging
7. Macroeconomics, Aging and Growth
Ronald Lee
8. Insurance Markets for the Elderly
Hanming Fang
9. Economic Aspects of Occupational Pensions
Olivia S. Mitchell and John Piggott
10. The Political Economy of Population Aging
Georges Casamatta and Loic Batte
11. Migration and Demographic Shift
Klaus F. Zimmermann and Anzelika Zaiceva
12. Longevity and Morbidity Projections
Michael Sherris
13. Intergenerational Risk Sharing
Roel Beetsma and Ward Romp
Public Policy with an Aging Population
14. Taxation
Alan Woodland and John Piggott
15. Aging and Poverty
Timothy Michael Smeeding and Joseph Marchand
16. Social Security and Public Insurance
Axel Borsch-Supan
17. Health and Long Term Care
Edward Norton
18. Population Aging Data Sets and their Analysis
James P. Smith and Isabella Dobrescu
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: set, 1A and 1B ISBN 9780444634054
Description
Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging synthesizes the economic literature on aging and the subjects associated with it, including social insurance and healthcare costs, both of which are of interest to policymakers and academics. These volumes, the first of a new subseries in the Handbooks in Economics, describe and analyze scholarship created since the inception of serious attention began in the late 1970s, including information from general economics journals, from various field journals in economics, especially, but not exclusively, those covering labor markets and human resource issues, from interdisciplinary social science and life science journals, and from papers by economists published in journals associated with gerontology, history, sociology, political science, and demography, amongst others.
Table of Contents
The Anatomy of Aging
1. Demographics Globally and Through Time
David Bloom and Dara Lee Luca
The Household Perspective
2. Labour Force Participation and the Retirement Decision
Richard Blundell and Eric French
3. Conflict and Cooperation within the Family, and between the State and the Family, in the Provision of Old-Age Security
Alessandro Cigno
4. Consumption and Saving
Orazio Attanasio, Sagri Kitao, Guglielmo Weber and Andrea Bonfatti
5. Decision-making, Markets and Cognitive Decline
Michael Keane and Susan Thorp
6. Investment and Portfolio Allocation
Raimond Maurer and Barbara Kaschuetzke
Economic Impacts of Population Aging
7. Macroeconomics, Aging and Growth
Ronald Lee
8. Insurance Markets for the Elderly
Hanming Fang
9. Economic Aspects of Occupational Pensions
Olivia S. Mitchell and John Piggott
10. The Political Economy of Population Aging
Georges Casamatta and Loic Batte
11. Migration and Demographic Shift
Klaus F. Zimmermann and Anzelika Zaiceva
12. Longevity and Morbidity Projections
Michael Sherris
13. Intergenerational Risk Sharing
Roel Beetsma and Ward Romp
Public Policy with an Aging Population
14. Taxation
Alan Woodland and John Piggott
15. Aging and Poverty
Timothy Michael Smeeding and Joseph Marchand
16. Social Security and Public Insurance
Axel Borsch-Supan
17. Health and Long Term Care
Edward Norton
18. Population Aging Data Sets and their Analysis
James P. Smith and Isabella Dobrescu
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