Book
Licensed
Unlicensed
Requires Authentication
Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World
The Relationship to Youth Employment
-
Edited by:
Jonathan Gruber
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2010
About this book
Many countries have social security systems that are currently financially unsustainable. Economists and policy makers have long studied this problem and identified two key causes. First, as declining birth rates raise the share of older persons in the population, the ratio of retirees to benefits-paying employees increases. Second, as falling mortality rates increase lifespans, retirees receive benefits for longer than in the past. Further exacerbating the situation, the provisions of social security programs often provide strong incentives to leave the labor force.
Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World offers comparative analysis from twelve countries and examines the issue of age in the labor force. A notable group of contributors analyzes the relationship between incentives to retire and the proportion of older persons in the workforce, the effects that reforming social security would have on the employment rates of older workers, and how extending labor force participation will affect program costs. Dispelling the myth that employing older workers takes jobs away from the young, this timely volume challenges a raft of existing assumptions about the relationship between old and young people in the workforce.
Author / Editor information
Jonathan Gruber is professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the Program on Health Care at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he is a research associate. David A. Wise is the John F. Stambaugh Professor of Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He is area director of the Health and Retirement programs, director of the Program on the Economics of Aging, and a research associate at the NBER.
Topics
|
Publicly Available Download PDF |
i |
|
Publicly Available Download PDF |
vii |
|
Publicly Available Download PDF |
ix |
|
David A. Wise, Kevin Milligan and Jonathan Gruber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
1 |
|
Pierre Pestieau, Sergio Perelman, Mathieu Lefèbvre and Alain Jousten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
47 |
|
Kevin Milligan, Jonathan Gruber and Michael Baker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
77 |
|
Peder J. Pedersen, Nabanita Datta Gupta and Paul Bingley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
99 |
|
Muriel Roger, Antoine Bozio, Didier Blanchet and Melika Ben Salem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
119 |
|
Reinhold Schnabel and Axel Börsch-Supan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
147 |
|
Franco Peracchi and Agar Brugiavini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
167 |
|
Akiko Sato Oishi, Satoshi Shimizutani and Takashi Oshio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
217 |
|
Adriaan Kalwij, Klaas de Vos and Arie Kapteyn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
243 |
|
Sergi Jiménez-Martín, Pilar García-Gómez and Michele Boldrin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
261 |
|
Ingemar Svensson and Mårten Palme Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
295 |
|
Carl Emmerson, Antoine Bozio, Richard Blundell and James Banks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
319 |
|
Kevin Milligan and Jonathan Gruber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
345 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
361 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
365 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
367 |
Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
April 15, 2010
eBook ISBN:
9780226309507
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
384
Other:
161 line drawings, 63 tables
eBook ISBN:
9780226309507
Keywords for this book
social security; government; governing; employment; employee; work; workers; labor; retirement; international; worldwide; world; economics; political economy; aging; age; policymakers; policy; declining birth rates; population; benefits; retirees; lifespans; program; participation; extension; pensions; older people; incentives; belgium; canada; denmark; france; germany; german; french; canadian; belgians; danes
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
