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Title Social security and retirement around the world / edited by Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1999]
©1999

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 486 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)
Note "Papers presented at a conference held at Château Beychevelle, Saint Julien, France, in May 1997"--Preface.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Social security and retirement in Belgium / Pierre Pestieau and Jean-Philippe Stijns -- Social security and retirement in Canada / Jonathan Gruber -- Social security and retirement in France / Didier Blanchet and Louis-Paul Pel ̌-- Social security and retirement in Germany / Axel Börsch-Supan and Reinhold Schnabel -- Social security and retirement in Italy / Agar Brugiavini -- Social security and retirement in Japan / Naohiro Yashiro and Takashi Oshio -- Social security and retirement in the Netherlands / Arie Kapteyn and Klaas de Vos -- Social security and retirement in Spain / Michele Boldrin, Sergi Jimenez-Martin, and Franco Peracchi -- Social security, occupational pensions, and retirement in Sweden / Mårten Palme and Ingemar Svensson -- Pensions and retirement in the United Kingdom / Richard Blundell and Paul Johnson -- Social security and retirement in the United States / Peter Diamond and Jonathan Gruber.
Summary 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 that present information on the social security systems, and labor force participation patterns, in Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. "This book is highly recommended for the serious student of retirement age tren.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Social security -- Congresses.
Social security -- Congresses.
Retirement income -- Congresses.
Retirement income.
Old age pensions -- Congresses.
Old age pensions.
Older people -- Economic conditions -- Congresses.
Older people -- Economic conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Gruber, Jonathan.
Wise, David A.
Other Form: Print version: Social security and retirement around the world. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1999 (DLC) 98022488
ISBN 0226309991 (electronic book)
9780226309996 (electronic book)
0226310116 (cloth)
9780226310114
9780226309996