Government Spending on the Elderly
This book examines the aging of the US population as a primary domestic public policy issue. An increase in the proportion of the elderly in the total population will potentially result in a significant growth in the number of beneficiaries in major federal entitlement programs, leading to fiscal pressures and challenges for economic growth.
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Government Spending on the Elderly
This book examines the aging of the US population as a primary domestic public policy issue. An increase in the proportion of the elderly in the total population will potentially result in a significant growth in the number of beneficiaries in major federal entitlement programs, leading to fiscal pressures and challenges for economic growth.
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Government Spending on the Elderly

Government Spending on the Elderly

by D. Papadimitriou (Editor)
Government Spending on the Elderly

Government Spending on the Elderly

by D. Papadimitriou (Editor)

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This book examines the aging of the US population as a primary domestic public policy issue. An increase in the proportion of the elderly in the total population will potentially result in a significant growth in the number of beneficiaries in major federal entitlement programs, leading to fiscal pressures and challenges for economic growth.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780230500617
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 09/20/2007
Edition description: 2007
Pages: 404
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

RANIA ANTONOPOULOS Research Scholar, Levy Economics Institute, USA
AXEL BOERSCH-SUPAN Director, Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA), Germany; Professor for Macroeconomics and Public Policy, University of Mannheim, Germany
ZVI BODIE Norman and Adele Barron Professor of Management, Boston University, USA
CLARK BURDICK Economist, Social Security Office of Policy, USA
BARBARA A. BUTRICA Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute, USA
MELISSA FAVREAULT Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute Income and Benefits Policy Center, USA
LI GAN Associate Professor of Economics, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA; Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, USA
TERESA GHILARDUCCI Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame, USA; Director, Higgins Labor Research Center, University of Notre Dame, USA
JAGADEESH GOKHALE Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, USA
GUAN GONG Associate Professor, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China
BROOKE HARRINGTON Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, Brown University, USA
ROBERT HAVEMAN John Bascom Emeritus Professor, Department of Economics and La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; Research Affiliate, Institute for Research on Poverty, USA
MICHAEL HURD Director, RAND Center for the Study of Aging, USA; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, USA
STEPHANIE A. KELTON Associate Professor of Economics, University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA; Research Scholar, Center for Full Employment and Price Stability (C-FEPS), USA
HYUNSUB KUM Research Scholar, Levy Economics Institute, USA
JAMES MARTON Assistant Professor, Martin School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Kentucky, USA
GORDON B.T. MERMIN Research Associate, Urban Institute, USA
SERGIO NISTICÒ Associate Professor of Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Cassino, Italy
LUCIE G. SCHMIDT Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Williams College, USA
LOIS B. SHAW Consultant, Institute for Women's Policy Research, Washington, DC, USA
KAREN E. SMITH Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute, USA
RICHARD STARTZ Castor Professor of Economics, University of Washington, USA
C. EUGENE STEUERLE Senior Fellow, Urban Institute, USA; Co-Director, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, USA
DANIEL L. THORNTON Vice President and Economic Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, USA
ROBERT K. TRIEST Senior Economist and Policy Advisor, Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, USA
SHRIPAD TULJAPURKAR Morrison Professor of Population Studies and Professor of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, USA
BARBARA WOLFE Director, LaFollette School of Public Affairs and Professor of Economics and Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
EDWARD N. WOLFF Professor of Economics, New York University, USA; Senior Scholar, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, USA; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, USA
STEPHEN A. WOODBURY Professor of Economics, Michigan State University, USA; Senior Economist, W.E. Upjohn Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
L. RANDALL WRAY Professor of Economics and Research Director, Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA; Senior Scholar, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, NY, USA
AJIT ZACHARIAS Senior Scholar, Levy Economics Institute, USA

Table of Contents

Economic Perspectives on Aging: An Overview; D.B.Papadimitriou PART I: WELFARE STATE AND THE INCENTIVES TO RETIRE European State Welfare Regimes and their Generosity Towards the Elderly; A.Boersch-Supan Comment; S.Nisticò Global Demographic Trends and Provisioning for the Future; L.R.Wray Comment; R.Startz PART II: ASPECTS OF ECONOMIC WELL-BEING AND GENDER DISPARITIES AMONG THE ELDERLY Net Government Expenditures and the Economic Well-Being of the Elderly in the United States, 1989-2001; H.Kum, E.N.Wolff & A.Zacharias Comment; R.Haveman Differing Prospects for Women and Men: Young Old-Age, Old Old-Age, and Eldercare; L.B.Shaw Comment; R.Antonopoulos PART III: CHANGING PATTERNS OF RETIREMENT BEHAVIOR Working for a Good Retirement; B.A.Butrica, K.E.Smith & E.Steuerle Comment; L.G.Schmidt Net Intergenerational Transfers from an Increase in Social Security Benefits; L.Gan, G.Gong & M.Hurd Comment; D.L.Thornton PART IV: INTERACTION BETWEEN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC PROVISIONING The Changing Role of Employer Pensions: Tax Expenditures, Costs and Implications for Middle Class Elderly; T.Ghilarducci Comment; Z.Bodie Retiree Health Benefit Coverage and Retirement; J.Marton & S.A.Woodbury Comment; B.Wolfe PART V: BUDGETARY AND MACROECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF AGING Population Forecasts, Fiscal Policy and Risk; S.Tuljapurkar Comment; C.Burdick Wage Growth and the Measurement of Social Security's Financial Condition; J.Gokhale Comment; S.A.Kelton PAT VI: RETIREMENT SECURITY: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS The Adequacy of Retirement Resources among the Soon-to-Retire, 1983-2001; E.N.Wolff Comment; B.Harrington Minimum Benefits in Social Security; M.Favreault, G.B.T.Mermin & C.E. Steuerle Comment; R.K.Triest
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