Social Security & Retirement around the World ((NBER) National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Reports) - Hardcover

Gruber, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226310116 ISBN 13: 9780226310114

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1999

Synopsis

In nearly every industrialized country, the population is ageing rapidly and individuals are living longer, demographic trends have strained the financial viability of many countries' social security systems. The financial strain has been compounded by another trend: workers are leaving the labour force at increasingly younger ages. What accounts for this striking decline in labour force participation? One explanation is that social security programmes actually provide incentives for early retirement. This text houses a set of papers that present information on the social security systems, and labour force participation patterns, in Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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Review:

"Like its predecessor NBER volumes from this project, the new book is informative and useful as a reference for social security schemes and looming problems in the covered countries."--Monika Buetler "Journal of Pension Economics and Finance "

About the Author:

Jonathan Gruber is a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of research for the National Bureau of Economic Research's program on children. David A. Wise is the John F. Stambaugh Professor of Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and director of health and retirement programs at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0226310116
• ISBN 13: 9780226310114
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 492