Fiscal Implications of an Aging Population

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Social security in a general equilibrium model with endogenous government behavior

   • E. Drissen, F. van Winden

   Pages 1-22

3. The marginal cost of public funds with an aging population

   • David E. Wildasin

   Pages 23-47

4. Optimal pension funding with demographic instability and endogenous returns on investment

   • Didier Blanchet, Denis Kessler

   Pages 49-66

5. Pay-as-you-go social security in a changing environment

   • Robin Boadway, Maurice Marchand, Pierre Pestieau

   Pages 67-90

6. Public pensions in transition

   • Wolfgang Peters

   Pages 91-111

7. Ageing and the labor market

   • Klaus F. Zimmermann

   Pages 113-136

8. Tax reform, population ageing and the changing labour supply behaviour of married women

   • Patricia Apps

   Pages 137-152

9. United States public policy and the elderly

   • Richard V. Burkhauser, Greg J. Duncan

   Pages 153-167

10. Life cycle savings and consumption constraints

    • Axel Börsch-Supan, Konrad Stahl

    Pages 169-191

Serious research into the causes and implications of an aging population is a relatively recent phenomenon. Though several relevant issues of aging havereceived considerable attention in public and political discussions (especially in European countries and in Japan), the economics profession is somewhat lacking behind. This is particularly true for thetheoretical underpinnings of the economics of population aging. Until now, the aging-debate is primarily led by institutionalists. The present book with its analytical and econometric studies on fiscal implications of population aging is an important step in the process of theoretical analysis of aging. It is of interest both for population economists (and demographers) and for public economists - providing a bridge between these areas of research.

• Bevölkerungsökonomie
• Fiskalpolitik
• Mikroökonomie
• demography
• econometrics
• fiscal policy
• labor market
• microeconomics
• population
• population aging
• population economics
• public policy
• social security
• stability
• tax reform

• Department of Economics, University of Bonn, Bonn 1, Germany

  Dieter Bös

• Faculty of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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