Research Catalog

Title

Social security programs and retirement around the world : fiscal implications of reform / edited by Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gruber, Jonathan.
• Wise, David A.
• National Bureau of Economic Research.

Description

ix, 541 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

(Publisher-supplied data) The future of Social Security is troubled, both in the United States and in most other developed countries with aging populations. As improvements in health care and changes in life styles enable retirees to live longer than ever before, the stress on national budgets will increase substantially. In Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World, Jonathan Gruber, David A. Wise, and experts in many countries examine the consequences of reforming retirement benefits in a dozen nations. Drawing on the work of an international group of noted economists, the editors argue that social security programs provide strong incentives for workers to leave the labor force by retiring and taking the benefits to which they are entitled. By penalizing work, social security systems magnify the increased financial burden caused by aging populations, thus contributing to the insolvency of the system. This book is a model of comparative analysis that evaluates the effects of illustrative policies for countries facing the impending rapid growth of social security benefits. Its insights will help inform one of the most pressing debates.

Series Statement

National Bureau of Economic Research conference report

Uniform Title

National Bureau of Economic Research conference report

Subject

• Social security > Finance
• Retirement > Economic aspects
• Retirement income
• Older people > Employment
• Employment (Economic theory)
• Older people
• Social Security > economics
• Retirement > economics
• Employment
• Socioeconomic Factors
• Aged
• Developed Countries
• employing
• elderly
• Older people
• Older people > Employment
• Retirement > Economic aspects
• Retirement income
• Social security > Finance
• Soziale Sicherheit
• Internationaler Vergleich
• Altersversorgung

Note

• This volume presents the third phase of the project.
• An analysis and country-by-country comparison of the effects of social security incentives on retirement behavior in Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the UK, and the United States.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Microsimulation of social security reforms in Belgium / Raphael Desmet, Alain Jousten, Sergio Perelman, and Pierre Pestieau -- Simulating the response to reform of Canada's income security programs / Michael Baker, Jonathan Gruber, and Kevin Milligan -- Fiscal implications of reforms in retirement systems in Denmark / Paul Bingley, Nabanita Datta Gupta, and Peder J. Pedersen -- Simulating retirement behavior : the case of France / Emmanuelle Walraet and Ronan Mahieu -- The budget impact of reduced early retirement incentives on the German public pension system / Axel Börsch-Supan, Simone Kohnz, and Reinhold Schnabel -- Fiscal implications of pension reforms in Italy / Agar Brugiavini and Franco Peracchi -- Financial implications of social security reforms in Japan / Akiko S. Oishi and Takashi Oshio -- Simulation of pension reforms in the Netherlands / Arie Kapteyn and Klaas de Vos -- Evaluating Spanish pension expenditure under alternative reform scenarios / Michele Boldrin and Sergi Jimènez-Martin -- Financial implications of income security reforms in Sweden / Mårten Palme and Ingemar Svensson -- Fiscal effects of reforming the UK state pension system / Richard Blundell and Carl Emmerson -- Fiscal effects of social security reform in the United States / Courtney Coile and Jonathan Gruber.

ISBN

• 9780226310176
• 0226310175

LCCN

2006051468

OCLC

• ocm76263401
• 76263401
• SCSB-1451068

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library