The Future of Low Birth-Rate Populations

by Lincoln H. Day

Overview

Lincoln Day assesses the demographic situation, the likely policy alternatives, the significance of future changes in fertility and mortality rates and analyses the likely losses and gains attendant upon an ageing, dwindling people.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134799084
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/26/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	572 KB

About the Author

Prior to his recent retirement Lincoln H. Day was Senior Fellow in Demography at the Australian National University.

Table of Contents

1 THE DEMOGRAPHIC SITUATION 2 THE FUTURE OF FERTILITY AND MORTALITY 3 THE CHALLENGE OF NUMERICAL DECLINE AND OLDER AGE STRUCTURE: PART 1. FINANCES AND THE PROVISION OF CARE 4 THE CHALLENGE OF NUMERICAL DECLINE AND OLDER AGE STRUCTURE: PART 2. HOUSEHOLDS, LABOR FORCE, ECONOMIC CONDITIONS AND BEHAVIOR 5 POLICY ALTERNATIVES: DEMOGRAPHIC 6 SOME COMPENSATIONS IN THE TREND TOWARD OLDER AGE STRUCTURES AND NUMERICAL DECLINES 7 POLICY ALTERNATIVES: NONDEMOGRAPHIC 8 CONCLUSION

Editorial Reviews

'Deserves to be read by anyone interested in the implications of persistent low fertility and consequent deomgraphic ageing.' - Population and Development Review

'With its bold ideas about no-growth and negative-growth populations scenarios, the book is bound to stimulate debate.' - Population Today

'The book can be confidently recommended to the non-population expert as well as to demographers themselves. [It is] clearly and cogently written... Lincoln Day makes an excellent case that a stable population with more old people could be a more sustainable and harmonious society.' - Australian National University Reporter

'... lucid ... should be of substantial interest to scholars in the fields of demography, sociology, gerontology and European studies.' - Choice

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