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  • SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAMS AND RETIREMENT AROUND THE WORLD
    COURTNEY C. COILE, KEVIN MILLIGAN, AND DAVID A. WISE
    In developed countries, men’s labor force participation at older ages has increased in recent years, reversing a decades-long pattern of decline. Participation rates for older women have also been rising. What explains these patterns, and the differences in them across countries? The answers to these questions are pivotal as countries face fiscal and retirement security challen...

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  • INVESTIGATIONS IN THE ECONOMICS OF AGING
    DAVID A. WISE (EDITOR)
    One of the most well-established relationships in the economics of aging is that between health and wealth. Yet this relationship is also changing in conjunction with a rapidly aging population as well as a broad evolution in how people live later in life. Building on findings from earlier editions in this National Bureau of Economic Research series, Investigations in the Econo...

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  • EXPLORATIONS IN THE ECONOMICS OF AGING
    DAVID A. WISE
    The next two decades will mark a new phase in the demographic transition of the United States as baby boomers become eligible for Social Security and Medicare. Drawing on evidence from the United States and other nations, Explorations in the Economics of Aging yields important new findings on how economic decisions by households and policy choices by governments will influence ...

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  • RESEARCH FINDINGS IN THE ECONOMICS OF AGING
    DAVID A. WISE
    The baby boom generation's entry into old age has led to an unprecedented increase in the elderly population. The social and economic effects of this shift are significant, and in Research Findings in the Economics of Aging, a group of leading researchers takes an eclectic view of the subject. Among the broad topics discussed are work and retirement behavior, disability, and th...

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  • DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ECONOMICS OF AGING
    DAVID A. WISE
    The number of Americans eligible to receive Social Security benefits will increase from forty-five million to nearly eighty million in the next twenty years. Retirement systems must therefore adapt to meet the demands of the largest aging population in our nation’s history. In Developments in the Economics of Aging, David A. Wise and a distinguished group of analysts examine th...

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  • THE ECONOMICS OF AGING
    DAVID A. WISE
    The Economics of Aging presents results from an ongoing National Bureau of Economic Research project. Contributors consider the housing mobility and living arrangements of the elderly, their labor force participation and retirement, the economics of their health care, and their financial status. The goal of the research is to further our understanding both of the factors that d...

    $1,363.11

  • ISSUES IN THE ECONOMICS OF AGING
    DAVID A. WISE
    This companion volume to The Economics of Aging (1989) examines the economic consequences of an increasingly older population, focusing on the housing and living arrangements of the elderly, as well as their labor force participation and retirement. ...

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  • PUBLIC SECTOR PAYROLLS
    DAVID A. WISE
    An estimated one out of five employees in this country works for some branch of government. Because policies concerning the compensation of these employees rest on assumptions about the economic dynamics of the public sector, the issue of public sector employment is of vital importance in the analysis of the national economy. In Public Sector Payrolls, leading economists explor...

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  • TOPICS IN THE ECONOMICS OF AGING
    DAVID A. WISE
    The original essays and commentary in this volume—the third in a series reporting the results of the NBER Economics of Aging Program—address issues that are of particular importance to the well-being of individuals as they age and to a society at large that is composed increasingly of older persons. The contributors examine social security reform, including an analysis of the J...

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  • INQUIRIES IN THE ECONOMICS OF AGING
    DAVID A. WISE
    For over a decade, the National Bureau of Economic Research has sponsored the Economics of Aging Program, under the direction of David A. Wise. The program addresses issues that affect the well-being of individuals as they age and a society that is composed increasingly of older people. Within the next twenty years, an unprecedented proportion of Americans will be over sixty-fi...

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  • PENSIONS, LABOR, AND INDIVIDUAL CHOICE
    DAVID A. WISE
    In recent years a decline in the labor force participation of older workers has combined with rapid current and projected increases in the number of older Americans, producing major policy debates over looming "crises" in social security and, to a lesser extent, in the private pension system. That private system is playing an increasing role in the support of retired workers an...

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  • STUDIES IN THE ECONOMICS OF AGING
    DAVID A. WISE
    Studies in the Economics of Aging is the fourth book in a series from the National Bureau of Economic Research that addresses economic issues in aging and retirement. Building on the research in The Economics of Aging (1989), Issues in the Economics of Aging (1990), and Topics in the Economics of Aging (1992), this volume examines elderly population growth and government spendi...

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  • FRONTIERS IN THE ECONOMICS OF AGING
    DAVID A. WISE
    As America's population ages, economic research related to the elderly becomes increasingly important to public policy. Frontiers in the Economics in Aging directs attention to four topics: the role of retirement accounts, such as IRAs and 401(k)s in personal saving; the economics of health care; new advances in research methodology; and aging in relation to inequality. Some of...

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  • ADVANCES IN THE ECONOMICS OF AGING
    DAVID A. WISE
    This volume presents innovative research on issues of importance to the well-being of older persons: labor market behavior, health care, housing and living arrangements, and saving and wealth. Specific topics include the effect of labor market rigidities on the employment of older workers; the effect on retirement of the availability of continuation coverage benefits; and the i...

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  • HEALTH CARE ISSUES IN THE UNITED STATES AND JAPAN
    DAVID A. WISE
    Recent data show wide disparity between Japan and the United States in the effectiveness of their health care systems. Japan spends close to the lowest percentage of its gross domestic product on health care among OECD countries, the United States spends the highest, yet life expectancies in Japan are among the world’s longest. Clearly, a great deal can be learned from a compre...

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  • THEMES IN THE ECONOMICS OF AGING
    DAVID A. WISE
    In the past few years, the economic ramifications of aging have garnered close attention from a group of NBER researchers led by David A. Wise. In this volume, Wise and his collaborators continue to analyze a nexus of age-related issues. This volume begins by looking at the implications of private and public personal retirement plans, focusing in particular on the impact of 401...

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  • ANALYSES IN THE ECONOMICS OF AGING
    DAVID A. WISE
    Analyses in the Economics of Aging summarizes a massive amount of new research on several popular and less-examined topics pertaining to the relationship between economics and aging. Among the many themes explored in this volume, considerable attention is given to new research on retirement savings, the cost and efficiency of medical resources, and the predictors of health even...

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  • PERSPECTIVES ON THE ECONOMICS OF AGING
    DAVID A. WISE
    This book investigates several important issues in the economics of aging, including the accumulation of wealth and the relationship between health and financial prosperity. Examining the changes in savings behavior and investment priorities in the United States over the past few decades, contributors to the volume point to a dramatic shift from employer-managed, defined benefi...

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