Social security and retirement around the world /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1999.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 486 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	National Bureau of Economic Research conference report Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)
Subject:	Social security -- Congresses. Retirement income -- Congresses. Old age pensions -- Congresses. Older people -- Economic conditions -- Congresses. Old age pensions. Older people -- Economic conditions. Retirement income. Social security. Conference papers and proceedings. Electronic books. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11201892

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Other authors / contributors:	Gruber, Jonathan. Wise, David A.
ISBN:	0226309991 9780226309996 0226310116 9780226310114 9780226309996
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	"Papers presented at a conference held at Château Beychevelle, Saint Julien, France, in May 1997"--Preface. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	What accounts for the striking decline in labor force participation at increasingly younger ages? Social Security and Retirement around the World examines one explanation: social security programs actually provide incentives for early retirement. This volume houses a set of remarkable papers that present information on the social security systems, and labor force participation patterns, in Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. "This book is highly recommended for the serious student of retirement age tren.
Other form:	Print version: Social security and retirement around the world. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1999

Table of Contents:

Social security and retirement in Belgium / Pierre Pestieau and Jean-Philippe Stijns
Social security and retirement in Canada / Jonathan Gruber
Social security and retirement in France / Didier Blanchet and Louis-Paul Pel ̌-- Social security and retirement in Germany / Axel Börsch-Supan and Reinhold Schnabel
Social security and retirement in Italy / Agar Brugiavini
Social security and retirement in Japan / Naohiro Yashiro and Takashi Oshio
Social security and retirement in the Netherlands / Arie Kapteyn and Klaas de Vos
Social security and retirement in Spain / Michele Boldrin, Sergi Jimenez-Martin, and Franco Peracchi
Social security, occupational pensions, and retirement in Sweden / Mårten Palme and Ingemar Svensson
Pensions and retirement in the United Kingdom / Richard Blundell and Paul Johnson
Social security and retirement in the United States / Peter Diamond and Jonathan Gruber.

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