Demographic Change and Fiscal Policy

ISBN-13: 9780521088275 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 468 str.

Alan J. Auerbach; Ronald D. Lee

Opis

The essays in this volume discuss such timely topics as demographic change and the outlook for Social Security and Medicare in the United States; long term decision making under uncertainty; the effect of changing family structure on government spending; how the structure of public retirement policies has encouraged early retirement in some countries and not others; the response of local community spending to demographic change; and related topics. Contributors include many of the world's leading public finance economists and economic demographers.