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. Provides the latest economics literature on aging and its associated subjects, including the aspects of social insurance and healthcare costsIncludes valuable data from a variety of general economics journals and interdisciplinary social and life science publicationsCritical text for policymakers and academics that describes and analyzes valuable information since the inception of the study of the science of population aging in the late 1970s INDICE: 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 3. Aging and the Family. Alessandro Cigno 4. Consumption and Saving. Orazio Attanasio, Sagri Kitao and Guglielmo Weber 5. Decision-Making, Markets and Cognitive Decline. Michael Keane 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. 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. Intergenerational Equity and Risk Sharing. Roel Beetsma and Ward Romp Public Policy with an Aging Population 13. Taxation. Alan Woodland and John Piggott 14. Aging and Poverty. Timothy Michael Smeeding and Joseph Marchand 15. Social Security and Public Insurance. Axel Borsch-Supan 16. The Economics of Health and Long Term (Aged) Care under Demographic Shift. Edward Norton 17. Population Aging Data Sets and their Analysis. James P. Smith and David Weir
- ISBN: 978-0-444-53842-0
- Editorial: North Holland
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 800
- Fecha Publicación: 01/09/2016
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