SHARE is an international survey designed to answer the societal challenges that face us due to rapid population ageing. How do Europeans age? Under which circumstances do older people and their families live, how healthy and active are they, and how did the crisis affect them? The authors of...

The population of developing Asia, in particular East Asia, is aging. Funding the needs of its growing population of older adults is the biggest socioeconomic challenge that aging presents for the region. The central objective of our paper is to analyze empirically how individuals fund their...

Ageism-Concept and Origins: Liat Ayalon & Clemens Tesch-Römer -- Ageism: The Relationship between Age Stereotypes and Age Discrimination: Peggy Voss & Klaus Rothermund -- Multiple Marginalizations Based on Age: Gendered Ageism and Beyond: Clary Krekula, Pirjo Nikander, & Monika Wilińska --...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Coming to the Knap-in -- The Knap-in Ethos -- Sources of Information -- The Knap-in at Fort Osage -- 2. Making Stone Tools: The World's Oldest Craft -- The Processes of Flintknapping -- Tools and the Knapper's Ethos -- 3. From Fakes and...

Dieser Beitrag analysiert den Einkommensreichtum von älteren Personen in Deutschland 2001. Unter Verwendung der aktuellen Daten der Lohn- und Einkommensteuerstatistik, die in besonderem Maße für die Analyse hoher Einkommen geeignet sind, werden neue Reichtumskennzahlen diskutiert und neue...

Disability, work and retirement -- New age thinking: alternative ways of measuring age, their relationship to labor force participation, government policies, and GDP / John B. Shoven -- Comment / Erzo F. P. Luttmer -- Work disability: the effects of demography, health, and disability insurance /...