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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book analyzes the impact of dynamics in age structure and marital status composition on future public pension expenditures in twelve industrialized countries. It shows that there is no demographic response to population ageing at the horizon 2030. Neither an increase in fertility nor an inflow of migrants can rejuvenate national populations, unless fertility and/or migration reach unrealistically high levels. Therefore, the overall conclusion of this book is that demographic variables are of limited help to relieve the burden of future public pension expenditures. Substantial reductions of the public pension burden have to be sought in socioeconomic measures, and not in adjusting demographic conditions.
The book includes various demographic and pension scenarios for pension costs in the coming decades for Austria, Canada, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, and Sweden. Not only old age pensions, but also disability and survivor pensions have been investigated. Variant projections were calculated for changes in demographic, labour force, and pension system variables. In addition, separate case studies for three countries deal with: a pension system in Austria in which benefits depend on the number children ever born; the impact of household dynamics on social security in the Netherlands, not just marriage and marriage dissolution; and with the consequences of economic growth for public pensions in Sweden.
Authors and Affiliations
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Population and Development Section, Population Division, Room DC2-2044, United Nations, New York, USA
Jean-Pierre Gonnot
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Division for Demography and Living Conditions, Statistics Norway, Oslo, Norway
Nico Keilman
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International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
Christopher Prinz
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Security, Household, and Family Dynamics in Ageing Societies
Authors: Jean-Pierre Gonnot, Nico Keilman, Christopher Prinz
Series Title: European Studies of Population
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8441-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1995
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-3395-1Published: 28 February 1995
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4530-0Published: 04 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8441-8Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1381-3579
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8977
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 238
Topics: Demography, Population Economics