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Economic perspectives on aging: an overview -- European welfare state regimes and their generosity towards 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 p...

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Weitere Verfasser: Papadimitriou, Dimitri Basil (BerichterstatterIn)
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Veröffentlicht: Basingstoke, Hampshire u.a. Palgrave Macmillan c 2007
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Zusammenfassung:Economic perspectives on aging: an overview -- European welfare state regimes and their generosity towards 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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
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Beschreibung:XXVII, 404 S.
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ISBN:0230500617
0-230-50061-7
9780230500617
978-0-230-50061-7