This volume explores intergenerational practices and their impact on social sustainability, with an emphasis on developing programmatic efforts to address profound social challenges such as underperforming educational and work-related systems, failing support systems for dependent or vulnerable...

Demographic trends put a burden on EU pension provision. As the sustainability of pension systems is addressed by current pension reforms, lower benefit levels are projected. In this scenario, households may want to consider supplementing their public pension income. As their own residence is on...

Pensionomics puts forward a portfolio perspective on the combination of funded and unfunded pension arrangements. In a second-best type argument it is formally shown that a Pay-As-You-Go pension system can substitute the tradability of human capital. While this ideal form of diversification can...

DICE-2013R and Other Integrated Assessment Models -- Consumer Sovereignty vs. Intergenerational Equity: An Overview of the Stern-Nordhaus Debate -- Intergenerational Discounting and Overlapping Generations Models -- Intergenerational Discounting in the DICE Model.

Basics -- Economic Growth and Natural Resources -- Efficiency and Market Equilibrium under Resource Abundance -- Intergenerational Efficiency in Log-linear Cobb-Douglas OLG Models -- Intertemporal Market Equilibrium and Short-Run Intergenerational Efficiency -- Steady-State Market Equilibrium,...

The recent landings of illegal immigrants on the Italian and Spanish coasts, the immigrant riots in France, and the migratory pressure faced by many countries are an indication that migration will remain high on the agenda of international public policy for some time. In order to generate...

This upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of individual and population ageing. Placing economic considerations into a wider social sciences context, this is ideal reading not only for advanced undergraduate and masters students in economics, health...

Chapter 1: Long distance commuting in Australia -- Chapter 2: The socio-economic impacts of long distance commuting on people and communities -- Chapter 3: Analysing the spatial distribution of changing labour force dynamics in the Pilbara -- Chapter 4: Reshaping rural communities “at a...

Introduction -- Part I -- The Idea and Practices of Citizenship in South Korea -- Threats or Leverage for Korean Civil Society in Contesting Globalization -- Part II -- The Migration of Elites in a Borderless World: Citizenship as an Incentive for Professionals and Managers? -- A Comparative...