Research Catalog

Title

Ages, generations and the social contract : the demographic challenges facing the welfare state / Jacques Veron, Sophie Pennec, Jacques Legare, editors.

Publication

Dordrecht ; London : Springer, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Véron, Jacques.
• Pennec, Sophie.
• Légaré, Jacques, 1938-

Description

xv, 390 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Social contract
• Intergenerational relations > Economic aspects
• Population aging > Government policy
• Population aging > Economic aspects
• Welfare state

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Demographical change, welfare, and intergenerational transfers: a global overview / Ronald D. Lee -- Demographical context of the social contract in developed countries: unity and diversity / Jacques Véron, Sophie Pennec -- Economics of the intergenerational debate: normative, accounting and political viewpoints / André Masson -- Reorganizing the activity cycle: the stakes in a new social contract / Bernard Perret -- Social contract and age at retirement: some elements of Franco-American comparison / Patrick Aubert, Didier Blanchet, David Blau -- Longevity and work / Pierre Pestieau -- Changes to the legal relationship between grandparents and grandchildren in Quebec: a disconcerting evolution / Renée Joyal -- Demographic change and the social contract of informal support within the family / Jenny de Jong Gierveld -- Change and reciprocity in intergenerational relationships: the discourse of Spanish working mothers / Constanza Tobío -- Intergenerational exchanges in older populations / Emily Grundy -- Family solidarities at the beginning of retirement in France / Christiane Delbès, Joelle Gaymu -- Pensions and income redistribution in a comparative perspective: evidence from the Luxembourg income study / Christina Behrendt -- Social spending: recent changes and conditions for its long-term viability / Hervé Gauthier -- Pensions, privilege and poverty: another "take" on intergenerational equity / Susan A. McDaniel -- Toward a 24-hour economy: implications for the temporal structure and functioning of family life / Harriet B. Presser -- Working schedules: in Search of a balance between family time and economic wellbeing / Evelyne Lapierre-Adamcyk, Nicole Marcil-Gratton, Céline Le Bourdais -- Determinants of paths of transition to total-work retirement: a preliminary empirical analysis / Leroy O. Stone.

ISBN

• 9781402059728 (hbk.)
• 1402059728 (hbk.)

OCLC

• ocm85898099
• 85898099
• SCSB-5369633

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Columbia University Libraries