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Title Aging in the United States and Japan : economic trends / edited by Yukio Noguchi and David A. Wise
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 203 pages) : illustrations
Series A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
Contents Aging and labor force participation : a review of trends and explanations / Robin L. Lumsdaine and David A. Wise -- Social Security benefits and the labor supply of the elderly in Japan / Atsushi Seike and Haruo Shimada -- The economic status of the elderly in the United States / Michael D. Hurd -- Household asset- and wealthholdings in Japan / Noriyuki Takayama -- Problems of housing the elderly in the United States and Japan / Daniel L. McFadden -- The cost of aging : public finance perspectives for Japan / Seiritsu Ogura -- Financing health care for elderly Americans in the 1990s / Alan M. Garber
Summary Japanese and American economists assess the present economic status of the elderly in the United States and Japan, and consider the impact of an aging population on the economies of the two countries. With essays on labor force participation and retirement, housing equity and the economic status of the elderly, budget implications of an aging population, and financing social security and health care in the 1990s, this volume covers a broad spectrum of issues related to the economics of aging. Among the book's findings are that workers are retiring at an increasingly earlier age in both countri
Analysis Old persons
United States
Japan
Notes Papers presented at a conference in Tokyo sponsored jointly by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Japan Center for Economic Research
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Older people -- United States -- Economic conditions -- Congresses
Older people -- Japan -- Economic conditions -- Congresses
Older people -- United States -- Social conditions -- Congresses
Older people -- Japan -- Social conditions -- Congresses
Older people -- Housing -- United States -- Congresses
Older people -- Housing -- Japan -- Congresses
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gerontology.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Aging.
Older people -- Economic conditions
Older people -- Housing
Older people -- Social conditions
Veroudering (demografie)
Huisvesting.
Pensioen.
Japan
United States
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Noguchi, Yukio, 1940-
Wise, David A.
National Bureau of Economic Research.
Nihon Keizai Kenkyū Sentā.
ISBN 9780226590219
0226590216