Toward Disentangling Policy Implications of Economic and Demographic Changes in Canada's Aging Population
Demographic change and policy reorientation are often conflated with economic and social changes in anticipating the social and policy implications of demographic aging. In this paper, an attempt is made to begin to disentangle these factors to gain a clearer sense of the implications of population aging for social and policy responses. Analyzed here are selected socio-economic changes that intervene in the connection of demographic aging to policy, such as actual working patterns by age, education to work timing, retirement patterns, productivity shifts, pension investment shifts, policy changes such as the move toward economic liberalism and away from redistribution and social protection, changing family patterns, and shifts among generations in terms of wealth inequality. These are related to shifts in demographic age structures. Data which are more illustrative than the analytical focus of the paper, come largely from various Statistics Canada sources.
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2003
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Authors: | McDaniel, Susan A. |
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Canadian Public Policy. - University of Toronto Press. - Vol. 29.2003, 4, p. 491-509
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University of Toronto Press |
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