<DIV>This volume, the fourth to result from a remarkably productive collaboration between the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Japan Center for Economic Research, presents a selection of thirteen high-caliber papers addressing issues in the employment practices, labor markets, and health,...</div>

<DIV>Japanese and American economists assess the present economic status of the elderly in the United States and Japan, and consider the impact of an aging population on the economies of the two countries.<BR>With essays on labor force participation and retirement, housing equity and the economic status...</div>

<DIV>This book investigates several important issues in the economics of aging, including the accumulation of wealth and the relationship between health and financial prosperity.<BR><BR>Examining the changes in savings behavior and investment priorities in the United States over the past few decades,...</div>

<DIV>In the past few years, the economic ramifications of aging have garnered close attention from a group of NBER researchers led by David A. Wise. In this volume, Wise and his collaborators continue to analyze a nexus of age-related issues.<BR><BR>This volume begins by looking at the implications of...</div>

<DIV><P>The number of Americans eligible to receive Social Security benefits will increase from forty-five million to nearly eighty million in the next twenty years. Retirement systems must therefore adapt to meet the demands of the largest aging population in our nation’s history. In <I>Developments in...</i></p></div>

<DIV><P><I>The Economics of Aging </I>presents results from an ongoing National Bureau of Economic Research project. Contributors consider the housing mobility and living arrangements of the elderly, their labor force participation and retirement, the economics of their health care, and their financial status....</i></p></div>

<DIV><I>Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World</I> 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...</i></div>

<DIV><P>Recent data show wide disparity between Japan and the United States in the effectiveness of their health care systems. Japan spends close to the lowest percentage of its gross domestic product on health care among OECD countries, the United States spends the highest, yet life expectancies in...</p></div>

<DIV>The oldest members of the Baby-Boomer generation are now crossing the threshold of eligibility for Social Security and Medicare with extensive and significant implications for these programs’ overall spending and fiscal sustainability. Yet the aging of the Baby Boomers is just one part of the...</div>

<DIV>This companion volume to <I>The Economics of Aging</I> (1989) examines the economic consequences of an increasingly older population, focusing on the housing and living arrangements of the elderly, as well as their labor force participation and retirement.