Social security programs and retirement around the world : micro-estimation /

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Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Description:1 online resource (ix, 741 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/11219032
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Other authors / contributors:Gruber, Jonathan.
Wise, David A.
ISBN:9780226309989
0226309983
9780226310183
0226310183
0226310183
Digital file characteristics:text file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Summary:Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World represents the second stage of an ongoing research project studying the relationship between social security and labor. In the first volume, Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise revealed enormous disincentives to continued work at older ages in developed countries. Provisions of many social security programs typically encourage retirement by reducing pay for work, inducing older employees to leave the labor force early and magnifying the financial burden caused by an aging population. At a certain age there is simply no financial benefit to.
Other form:Print version: Social security programs and retirement around the world. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004