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Author:   John Creedy
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Edition:   illustrated edition
Volume:   51
Weight:   1.255kg
ISBN:  

9781852788278

ISBN 10:   1852788275
Pages:   656
Publication Date:   01 January 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION PART I INDIVIDUAL AGEING AND THE LIFE CYCLE 1. Harold Lydall (1955), 'The Life Cycle in Income, Saving, and Asset Ownership' 2. Yoram Ben-Porath (1967), 'The Production of Human Capital and the Life Cycle of Earnings' 3. John Creedy (1974), 'Income Changes over the Life Cycle' 4. James L. Medoff and Katharine G. Abraham (1980), 'Experience, Performance, and Earnings' 5. Edward P. Lazear (1979), 'Why Is There Mandatory Retirement?' 6. A. B. Atkinson (1971), 'The Distribution of Wealth and the Individual Life-Cycle' 7. A. F. Shorrocks (1975), 'The Age-Wealth Relationship: A Cross-Section and Cohort Analysis' 8. Thad W. Mirer ((1980), 'The Dissaving Behavior of the Retired Aged' PART II POPULATION AGEING 9. Alfred Sauvy (1948), 'Social and Economic Consequences of the Ageing of Western European Populations' 10. William J. Serow (1976), 'Slow Population Growth and the Relative Size and Productivity of the Male Labor Force' 11. David M. Cutler, James M. Poterba, Louise M. Sheiner and Lawrence H. Summers (1990), 'An Aging Society: Opportunity or Challenge?' 12. Finis Welch (1979), 'Effects of Cohort Size on Earnings: The Baby Boom Babies' Financial Bust' 13. Christopher A. Pissarides (1989), 'Unemployment Consequences of an Aging Population: An Application of Insider-Outsider Theory' 14. Brian S. Ferguson (1986), 'Labour Force Substitution and the Effects of an Ageing Population' 15. Jane Falkingham (1989), 'Dependency and Ageing in Britain: A Re-Examination of the Evidence' PART III AGEING AND SOCIAL INSURANCE 16. Paul A. Samuelson (1958), 'An Exact Consumption-Loan Model of Interest with or without the Social Contrivance of Money' 17. Henry Aaron (1966), 'The Social Insurance Paradox' 18. Paul A. Samuelson (1975), 'Optimum Social Security in a Life-Cycle Growth Model' 19. P. A. Diamond (1977), 'A Framework for Social Security Analysis' 20. Michael J. Boskin (1977), 'Social Security and Retirement Decisions' 21. Martin Feldstein (1974), 'Social Security, Induced Retirement, and Aggregate Capital Accumulation' 22. Joseph J. Spengler (1978), 'Population Aging and Security of the Aged' 23. A. R. Prest (1970), 'Some Redistributional Aspects of the National Superannuation Fund' 24. Barbara Boyle Torrey (1982), 'Guns vs Canes: The Fiscal Implications of an Aging Population' 25. William A. Halter and Richard Hemming (1987), 'The Impact of Demographic Change on Social Security Financing' 26. Robert Clark (1977), 'Increasing Income Transfers to the Elderly Implied by Zero Population Growth' 27. John A. Turner (1984), 'Population Age Structure and the Size of Social Security' 28. John Creedy and Richard Disney (1992), 'Financing State Pensions in Alternative Pay-As-You-Go Schemes' 29. Robert K. von Weizsacker (1990), 'Population Aging and Social Security: A Politico-Economic Model of State Pension Financing' PART IV MACROECONOMIC EFFECTS 30. F. A. Cowell (1975), 'Income Tax Incidence in an Ageing Population' 31. Paul R. Masson and Ralph W. Tryon (1990), 'Macroeconomic Effects of Projected Population Aging in Industrial Countries' 32. Ray C. Fair and Kathryn M. Dominguez (1991), 'Effects of the Changing U. S. Age Distribution on Macroeconomic Equations'

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Edited by John Creedy, Wellington School of Business and Government, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

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