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With essays on labour force participation and retirement, housing equity and the economic status of the elderly, and financing of social security and health care in the 1990s, this volume covers a broad spectrum of issues related to the economics of ageing in the United States and Japan.

Table of Contents
Preface Introduction 1 Yukio Noguchi, David A. Wise. 1: Aging and Labor Force Participation: A Review of Trends and Explanations 7 Robin L. Lumsdaine, David A. Wise. 2: Social Security Benefits and the Labor Supply of the Elderly in Japan 43 Atsushi Seike, Haruo Shimada. 3: The Economic Status of the Elderly in the United States 63 Michael D. Hurd 4: Household Asset- and Wealthholdings in Japan 85 Noriyuki Takayama 5: Problems of Housing the Elderly in the United States and Japan 109 Daniel L. McFadden 6: The Cost of Aging: Public Finance Perspectives for Japan 139 Seiritsu Ogura 7: Financing Health Care for Elderly Americans in the 1990s 175 Alan M. Garber Contributors 195 Author Index 197 Subject Index 201

Aging in the United States Japan Economic Trends

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      Publisher University of Chicago Press
      Published 9 January 1994
      ISBN-13 9780226590189
      978-0226590189
      ISBN-10 0226590186
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      Business, Finance & Law Political economy Public finance and taxation Age groups: the elderly / old age

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      With essays on labour force participation and retirement, housing equity and the economic status of the elderly, and financing of social security and health care in the 1990s, this volume covers a broad spectrum of issues related to the economics of ageing in the United States and Japan.

      Table of Contents
      Preface Introduction 1 Yukio Noguchi, David A. Wise. 1: Aging and Labor Force Participation: A Review of Trends and Explanations 7 Robin L. Lumsdaine, David A. Wise. 2: Social Security Benefits and the Labor Supply of the Elderly in Japan 43 Atsushi Seike, Haruo Shimada. 3: The Economic Status of the Elderly in the United States 63 Michael D. Hurd 4: Household Asset- and Wealthholdings in Japan 85 Noriyuki Takayama 5: Problems of Housing the Elderly in the United States and Japan 109 Daniel L. McFadden 6: The Cost of Aging: Public Finance Perspectives for Japan 139 Seiritsu Ogura 7: Financing Health Care for Elderly Americans in the 1990s 175 Alan M. Garber Contributors 195 Author Index 197 Subject Index 201

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