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Other authors / contributors: | Wise, David A.
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ISBN: | 9780226903286 0226903281 9780226903057 0226903052 0226386805 9780226386805 1281126152 9781281126153 9786611126155 6611126155
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Digital file characteristics: | text file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. English. Print version record.
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Summary: | 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 benefit pensions to employee-controlled retirement savings plans. Further, the legislative reforms of the 1980s and the booming stock market of the 1990s did their share to influence individual wealth accumulation patterns of.
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Other form: | Print version: Perspectives on the economics of aging. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004 0226903052 9780226903057
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