<DIV>An estimated one out of five employees in this country works for some branch of government. Because policies concerning the compensation of these employees rest on assumptions about the economic dynamics of the public sector, the issue of public sector employment is of vital importance in the...</div>

<DIV>What accounts for the striking decline in labor force participation at increasingly younger ages? Social Security and Retirement around the World examines one explanation: social security programs actually provide incentives for early retirement. This volume houses a set of remarkable papers...</div>

<DIV><I>Pensions in the U.S. Economy</I> is the fourth in a series on pensions from the National Bureau of Economic Research. For both economists and policymakers, this volume makes a valuable contribution to current research on pensions and the economics of the elderly. The contributors report on...</i></div>

<DIV><P>One of the most well-established relationships in the economics of aging is that between health and wealth. Yet this relationship is also changing in conjunction with a rapidly aging population as well as a broad evolution in how people live later in life.<BR><BR>Building on findings from earlier...</p></div>

<DIV>For over a decade, the National Bureau of Economic Research has sponsored the Economics of Aging Program, under the direction of David A. Wise. The program addresses issues that affect the well-being of individuals as they age and a society that is composed increasingly of older people.<BR><BR>Within...</div>

<DIV><DIV><I>Social Security Policy in a Changing Environment</I> analyzes the changing economic and demographic environment in which social insurance programs that benefit elderly households will operate.  It also explores how these ongoing trends will affect future beneficiaries, under both the current social...</i></div></div>

<DIV><P>In nearly every industrialized country, large aging populations and increased life expectancy have placed enormous pressure on social security programs—and, until recently, the pressure has been compounded by a trend toward retirement at an earlier age. With a larger fraction of the population...</p></div>

<DIV><I>Studies in the Economics of Aging</I> is the fourth book in a series from the National Bureau of Economic Research that addresses economic issues in aging and retirement. Building on the research in <I>The Economics of Aging</I> (1989), <I>Issues in the Economics of Aging</I> (1990), and <I>Topics in the Economics...</i></i></i></i></div>

<DIV><DIV>Many countries have social security systems that are currently financially unsustainable. Economists and policy makers have long studied this problem and identified two key causes. First, as declining birth rates raise the share of older persons in the population, the ratio of retirees to...</div></div>

<DIV>The population base in both the United States and Japan is growing older and, as those populations age, they provoke heretofore unexamined economic consequences. This cutting-edge, comparative volume, the third in the joint series offered by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Japan...</div>