Australia's retirement income system combines private and public provision for old age. Retirees rely on private (but … ownership; and other private savings. Despite recent changes intended to make the system fairer and more fiscally sustainable …, Australia's retirement income system still lacks coherence, produces inequitable outcomes and creates high effective tax rates …

, considerable attention is given to new research on retirement savings, the cost and efficiency of medical resources, and the … Economics of Aging also includes comparative studies on savings behavior in Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States; an … examination of household savings among different age groups in Germany; and a chapter devoted to population aging and the plight …