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,...

Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World represents the second stage of an ongoing research project studying the relationship between social security and labor. In the first volume, Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise revealed enormous disincentives to continued work at older ages...

The future of Social Security is troubled, both in the United States and in most other developed countries with aging populations. As improvements in health care and changes in life styles enable retirees to live longer than ever before, the stress on national budgets will increase...

Introduction / Courtney Coile, Kevin Milligan, and David A. Wise -- Work capacity and longer working lives in Belgium / Alain Jousten and Mathieu Lefebvre -- Health capacity to work at older ages: evidence from Canada / Kevin Milligan and Tammy Schirle -- Health capacity to work at older ages in...