Aging issues in the United States and Japan:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2001
Series:National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Choice, chance, and wealth dispersion at retirement - Steven F. Venti and David A. Wise -- - Household portfolio allocation over the life cycle - James M. Poterba and Andrew A. Samwick -- - Social security system and the demand for personal annuity and the life insurance - Seki Asano -- - Empirical investigation of intergenerational consumption distribution - Makoto Saito -- - Third wave in health care reform - David M. Cutler -- - Concentration and persistence of health care costs for the aged - Seiritsu Ogura and Reiko Suzuki -- - Effects of demographic change on health and medical expenditures - Satoshi Nakanishi and Noriyoshi Nakayama -- - Choice among employer-provided insurance plans - Matthew J. Eichner -- - Employee's pension benefits and the labor supply of older Japanese workers, 1980s-1990s - Yukiko Abe -- - Motivations for business retirement policies - Richard Woodbury -- - Promotion, incentives and wages - Toshiaki Tachibanaki and Tetsuya Maruyama -- - What went wrong with the 1991-92 official population projection of Japan? - Seiritsu Ogura
The population base in both the US and Japan is growing older and, as those populations age, they provoke heretofore unexamined economic consequences. This volume explores those consequences, drawing specific attention to four key areas: incentives for early retirement; savings, wealth, and asset allocation over the life cycle; health care and health care reform; and population projections
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 410 p.)
ISBN:0226620816
0226620832
9780226620817
9780226620831

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