Population aging, intergenerational transfers and the macroeconomy / edited by Robert Clark, Naohiro Ogawa, Andrew Mason.

Population aging is a global phenomenon that influences not only the industrialized countries of Asia and the West, but also many middle- and low- income countries that have experienced rapid fertility decline and achieved long life expectancies. This book explores how workers and consumers are resp...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Edward Elgar Publishing
Other Authors: Clark, Robert L. (Robert Louis), 1949-
Ogawa, Naohiro, 1944-
Mason, Andrew, 1947-
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, [2007], ©2007.
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Physical Description:x, 307 pages : illustrations
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Economic and policy implications of population aging / Robert Clark, Andrew Mason, Naohiro Ogawa
  • Population aging, changing retirement policies and lifetime earnings profiles in Japan / Robert Clark, Naohiro Ogawa, Rikiya Matsukura
  • Firm productivity, work-force age and educational structure in Austrian industries in 2001 / Alexia Prskawetz, Bernhard Mahlberg, Vegard Skirbekk
  • The effect of subjective survival probabilities on retirement and wealth in the United States / David E. Bloom, David Canning, Michael Moore, Younghwan Song
  • Modeling the effects of population aging on consumption in the presence of intergenerational transfers / Heinrich. Hock, David N. Weil
  • Transfers, capital and consumption over the demographic transition / Andrew Mason, Ronald Lee
  • Effects of age structure on investment, saving and trade / Thomas Lindh, Bo Malmberg
  • Population aging and health care spending in Japan : public- and private-sector responses / Naohiro Ogawa, Andrew Mason, Maliki, Rikiya Matsukura, Kazuro Nemoto
  • Procreation, migration and tradable quotas / David de la Croix, Axel Gosseries
  • Australia's future fund : a social welfare analysis / Ross Guest
  • Is Asia prepared for an aging population? / Peter S. Heller.