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. Dissolves the barriers between policymakers and scholars by presenting comprehensive portraits of social and theoretical issuesSynthesizes valuable data on the topic from a variety of journals dating back to the late 1970s in a convenient, comprehensive resourcePresents diverse perspectives on subjects that can be closely associated with national and regional concernsOffers comprehensive, critical reviews and expositions of the essential aspects of the economics of population aging 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: 978-0-444-63405-4
- Editorial: North Holland
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 2074
- Fecha Publicación: 01/09/2016
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés