The essays in this volume discuss such timely topics as demographic change and the outlook for Social Security and Medicare in the United States; long term decision making under uncertainty; the effect of changing family structure on government spending; how the structure of public retirement policies has encouraged early retirement in some countries and not others; the response of local community spending to demographic change; and related topics. Contributors include many of the world's leading public finance economists and economic demographers.
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The essays in this volume discuss such timely topics as demographic change and the outlook for Social Security and Medicare in the United States; long term decision making under uncertainty; the effect of changing family structure on government spending; how the structure of public retirement policies has encouraged early retirement in some countries and not others; the response of local community spending to demographic change; and related topics. Contributors include many of the world's leading public finance economists and economic demographers.
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Throughout the developed world, economies are experiencing two important trends. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
local demographic characteristics, local fiscal burdens, mortality module, consumption spillovers, social security early retirement age, lifetime labor earnings, spillover dimension, benefit recomputation, fertility forecasts, retired female workers, expenditure spillovers, insured widow, lifetime net tax rates, mean retirement age, female headship rates, present fiscal policy, dynamic microsimulation models, interjurisdictional spillovers, generational accounts, welfare participation rates, stochastic forecasts, fund exhaustion, net tax payments, investment spillovers, nursing home utilization Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Throughout the developed world, economies are experiencing two important trends. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
local demographic characteristics, local fiscal burdens, mortality module, consumption spillovers, social security early retirement age, lifetime labor earnings, spillover dimension, benefit recomputation, fertility forecasts, retired female workers, expenditure spillovers, insured widow, lifetime net tax rates, mean retirement age, female headship rates, present fiscal policy, dynamic microsimulation models, interjurisdictional spillovers, generational accounts, welfare participation rates, stochastic forecasts, fund exhaustion, net tax payments, investment spillovers, nursing home utilization Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, United Kingdom, Member States, University of Chicago Press, European Commission, Government Printing Office, Year Figure, Bureau of the Census, Board of Trustees, New York, Journal of Public Economics, Office of the Chief Actuary, Age Figure, Office of the Actuary, American Economic Review, Congressional Budget Office, Journal of Political Economy, Total Cohort, University of California, Cornell University, Current Population Survey, European Union, Journal of Urban Economics, National Academy Press, Urban Institute New!
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- Generational Accounting: Knowing Who Pays, and When, for What We Spend by Laurence J. Kotlikoff on 4 pages
- The Economics of Aging (National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report) by David A. Wise on 4 pages
- Fiscal Federalism (Modern Revivals in Economics) by Wallace E. Oates on page 104, page 145, and page 147
- Studies in the Economics of Aging (National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report) by David A. Wise on page 67, and page 189
- Social Security Reform (The Lindahl Lectures) by Peter A. Diamond on page 92, and page 97
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- Who Should Pay for Medicare? by Daniel N. Shaviro in Back Matter
- Microsimulation Modelling for Policy Analysis: Challenges and Innovations (Department of Applied Economics Occasional Papers) by Lavinia Mitton in Back Matter
- Pension Reform: Issues and Prospect for Non-financial Defined Contribution (NDC) Schemes (Trade and Development) by Robert Holzmann on page 111
- Social Security, Demographics, and Risk (Population Economics) by Christoph Hendrik Borgmann in Back Matter
- Who Will Pay?: Coping With Aging Societies, Climate Change, and Other Long-Term Fiscal Challenges by Peter S. Heller in Back Matter
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