Perspectives on the Economics of Aging

This book investigates several important issues in the economics of aging, including the accumulation of wealth and the relationship between health and financial prosperity.Examining the changes in savings behavior and investment priorities in the United States over the past few decades, contributors to the volume point to a dramatic shift from employer-managed, defined benefit pensions to employee-controlled retirement savings plans. Further, the legislative reforms of the 1980s and the booming stock market of the 1990s did their share to influence individual wealth accumulation patterns of A

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Year of publication:	2007
Authors:	Wise, David A.
Publisher:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Subject:	Altersvorsorge \| Retirement provision \| Altersgruppe \| Age group \| Ältere Menschen \| Elderly people \| Altersgrenze \| Retirement \| Ältere Arbeitskräfte \| Older workers \| Alternde Bevölkerung \| Aging population
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Extent:	Online-Ressource (549 p.)
Series:	NBER-Conference Report A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Transition to Personal Accounts and Increasing Retirement Wealth: Macro- and Microevidence; 2. For Better or for Worse: Default Effects and 401(k) Savings Behavior; 3. Aging and Housing Equity: Another Look; 4. Intergenerational Transfers and Savings Behavior; 5. Wealth Portfolios in the United Kingdom and the United States; 6. Mortality, Income, and Income Inequality over Time in Britain and the United States; 7. Does Money Protect Health Status? Evidence from South African Pensions; 8. Socioeconomic Status, Nutrition, and Health among the Elderly 9. Changes in the Age Distribution of Mortality over the Twentieth Century10. Area Differences in Utilization of Medical Care and Mortality among U.S. Elderly; 11. Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise? Tests for Direct Causal Paths between Health and Socioeconomic Status; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index;
ISBN:	978-0-226-90305-7 ; 978-0-226-90328-6 ; 978-0-226-90305-7
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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