Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging
- 1st Edition, Volume 1B - November 29, 2016
- Imprint: North Holland
- Editors: John Piggott, Alan Woodland
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 5 3 8 4 0 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 5 3 8 4 1 - 3
Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, Volume 1B provides the economic literature on aging and associated subjects, presenting comprehensive portraits of both social an… Read more
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Request a sales quoteHandbook of the Economics of Population Aging, Volume 1B provides the economic literature on aging and associated subjects, presenting comprehensive portraits of both social and theoretical issues. As the second of two volumes in this series on the economics of population aging, it continues the discussion, delving deeper into topics such as the labor market and human resource issues, gerontology, history, and the sociological and political ramifications of this fascinating topic whose inception dates back to the late 1970’s.
This volume includes literature that has appeared in general economics journals, in various field journals in economics, especially, but not exclusively, those covering labor market and human resource issues, information from interdisciplinary social science and life science journals, and data presented in papers by economists published in journals associated with gerontology, history, sociology, political science, and demography, amongst others.
- Presents comprehensive portraits of social and theoretical issues that can be used by both policymakers and scholars
- Readers receive diverse perspectives on subjects that can be closely associated with national and regional concerns
- Chapters offer comprehensive, critical reviews and expositions on the essential aspects of the economics of population aging
Graduate students and professors worldwide working in all subdisciplines of economics and finance. Secondary audience includes those working in gerontology, population studies, demography, governmental policy, sociology, and related fields.
The Anatomy of Aging
1. Demographics Globally and Through Time
David Bloom and Dara Lee Luca
The Household Perspective
2. Labour Force Participation and the Retirement Decision
Richard Blundell and Eric French
3. Conflict and Cooperation within the Family, and between the State and the Family, in the Provision of Old-Age Security
Alessandro Cigno
4. Consumption and Saving
Orazio Attanasio, Sagri Kitao, Guglielmo Weber and Andrea Bonfatti
5. Decision-making, Markets and Cognitive Decline
Michael Keane and Susan Thorp
6. Investment and Portfolio Allocation
Raimond Maurer and Barbara Kaschuetzke
Economic Impacts of Population Aging
7. Macroeconomics, Aging and Growth
Ronald Lee
8. Insurance Markets for the Elderly
Hanming Fang
9. Economic Aspects of Occupational Pensions
Olivia S. Mitchell and John Piggott
10. The Political Economy of Population Aging
Georges Casamatta and Loïc Batté
11. Migration and Demographic Shift
Klaus F. Zimmermann and Anzelika Zaiceva
12. Longevity and Morbidity Projections
Michael Sherris
13. Intergenerational Risk Sharing
Roel Beetsma and Ward Romp
Public Policy with an Aging Population
14. Taxation
Alan Woodland and John Piggott
15. Aging and Poverty
Timothy Michael Smeeding and Joseph Marchand
16. Social Security and Public Insurance
Axel Borsch-Supan
17. Health and Long Term Care
Edward Norton
18. Population Aging Data Sets and their Analysis
James P. Smith and Isabella Dobrescu
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 1B
- Published: November 29, 2016
- Imprint: North Holland
- No. of pages: 600
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780444538406
- eBook ISBN: 9780444538413
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John Piggott
John Piggott is Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), and of the Australian Institute for Population Ageing Research at the University of New South Wales, Australia, where he is Scientia Professor of Economics and also holds an ARC Australian Professorial Fellowship. He serves as book review editor of the Cambridge journal, the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, as an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Economics of Aging, and has recently been appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Retirement.
Affiliations and expertise
Director, Australian Institute for Population Aging Resources, University of New South Wales, AustraliaAW
Alan Woodland
Alan Woodland is currently Scientia Professor of Economics and ARC Australian Professorial Fellow in the School of Economics within the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales. He was previously Professor of Econometrics at the University of Sydney and Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia and the recipient of the Distinguished Economist Award of the Economics Society of Australia. He was previously a member of the Council of the Econometric Society, Chair of the Econometric Society Australasian Standing Committee and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Economics Association.
Affiliations and expertise
Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Australia