Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging

by John Piggott, Alan Woodland

Overview

Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, Volume 1B provides the economic literature on aging and associated subjects, presenting comprehensive portraits of both social and theoretical issues. As the second of two volumes in this series on the economics of population aging, it continues the discussion, delving deeper into topics such as the labor market and human resource issues, gerontology, history, and the sociological and political ramifications of this fascinating topic whose inception dates back to the late 1970’s.

This volume includes literature that has appeared in general economics journals, in various field journals in economics, especially, but not exclusively, those covering labor market and human resource issues, information from interdisciplinary social science and life science journals, and data presented in papers by economists published in journals associated with gerontology, history, sociology, political science, and demography, amongst others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780444538406
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	12/19/2016
Series:	Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging , #1
Pages:	600
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

John Piggott is Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), and of the Australian Institute for Population Ageing Research at the University of New South Wales, Australia, where he is Scientia Professor of Economics and also holds an ARC Australian Professorial Fellowship. He serves as book review editor of the Cambridge journal, the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, as an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Economics of Aging, and has recently been appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Retirement.

Alan Woodland is currently Scientia Professor of Economics and ARC Australian Professorial Fellow in the School of Economics within the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales. He was previously Professor of Econometrics at the University of Sydney and Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia and the recipient of the Distinguished Economist Award of the Economics Society of Australia. He was previously a member of the Council of the Econometric Society, Chair of the Econometric Society Australasian Standing Committee and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Economics Association.

Table of Contents

1Demographics Globally and Through Time
2Labour Force Participation and the Retirement Decision
3Aging and the Family
4Consumption and Saving
5Decision-making, Markets and Cognitive Decline
6Investment and Portfolio Allocation
7Macroeconomics, Aging and Growth
8Insurance Markets
9Economic Aspects of Occupational Pensions
10The Political Economy of Population Aging
11Migration and Demographic Shift
12Intergenerational Equity and Risk Sharing
13Taxation
14Aging and Poverty
15Social Security and Public Insurance
16The Economics of Health and Long Term (Aged) Care under Demographic Shift
17Population Aging Data Sets and their Analysis

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From the Publisher

As the second volume in a two volume collection, this book provides detailed information on principal subjects in the economics of aging, especially those concerned with healthcare, labor, demographics, housing, taxation, and insurance markets.