Perspectives on the economics of aging /

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Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Description:1 online resource (ix, 539 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11158198
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Other authors / contributors:Wise, David A.
ISBN:9780226903286
0226903281
9780226903057
0226903052
0226386805
9780226386805
1281126152
9781281126153
9786611126155
6611126155
Digital file characteristics:text file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
English.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Perspectives on the economics of aging. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004 0226903052 9780226903057