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| Other authors / contributors: | Gruber, Jonathan.
Wise, David A.
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| ISBN: | 9780226309507
0226309509
1282895451
9781282895454
9780226309484
0226309487
9786612895456
6612895454
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Many countries have social security systems that are currently financially unsustainable. Economists and policy makers have long studied this problem and identified two key causes. First, as declining birth rates raise the share of older persons in the population, the ratio of retirees to benefits-paying employees increases. Second, as falling mortality rates increase lifespans, retirees receive benefits for longer than in the past. Further exacerbating the situation, the provisions of social security programs often provide strong incentives to leave the labor force. Social Security Programs an.
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| Other form: | Print version: Social security programs and retirement around the world. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, ©2010 9780226309484
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| Standard no.: | 10.7208/9780226309507
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