Titlebook: Government Spending on the Elderly; Dimitri B. Papadimitriou (President, Jerome Levy P Book 2007 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmill

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Laurent Decreusefond,Alain Maruani workers. Economists and policy analysts have paid much attention to the reasons for and consequences of employer provision of health insurance (HI) to current employees — see, for example, Rosen (2000) for a review and discussion — but retiree health benefits (RHB) have received far less attention,

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137382795inly in the context of the industrialized nations. I begin by discussing methods for projecting demographic rates, mortality, fertility, and immigration, using probabilistic forecasts. I show how these are combined to make stochastic forecasts of population number and composition, illustrating with

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The Search for a Feasible Solutionding imbalance.. If, as many argue, Social Security Trustees’ projections for economic growth are unduly pessimistic, policy makers may ignore calls for policies to reform the system in the belief that faster economic growth will “bail us out.” However, Social Security’s financial status is normally

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European Welfare State Regimes and Their Generosity toward the Elderlyhe EU15 countries in the year 2001 was 23.9 percent vis-à-vis 14.7 percent in the United States (OECD Factbook, 2006). Some think that the European welfare state is too large because it crowds out economic activities. Indeed, GDP per capita in the United States is almost 50 percent higher than the a

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Global Demographic Trends and Provisioning for the Futureve growth of the elderly population is fueling debate about reform of Social Security programs in the United States and other developed nations. In the United States, the total discounted shortfall of Social Security revenues has been estimated at about $11 trillion, of which nearly two-thirds comes

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Differing Prospects for Women and Men: Young Old-Age, Old Old-Age, and Eldercarei-retired feminist economist, who is a participant observer of the process of growing old. I live in a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) and so am well situated to observe the aging of my neighbors and friends as well as myself. In this chapter, I will comment on some of the policies being