Demographic change and fiscal policy:

As public expenditures on health, education and transfer programmes increase, demographic change has a growing impact on public expenditures, and the incentives for behaviour created by public transfer programs increase as well. The essays in this volume discuss such topics as: demographic change an...

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Weitere beteiligte Personen: Auerbach, Alan J. 1951- (HerausgeberIn), Lee, Ronald Demos 1941- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2001
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511528545
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511528545
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511528545
Zusammenfassung:As public expenditures on health, education and transfer programmes increase, demographic change has a growing impact on public expenditures, and the incentives for behaviour created by public transfer programs increase as well. The essays in this volume discuss such topics as: demographic change and the outlook for Social Security and Medicare in the United States; long-term decision making under uncertainty; the effect of changing family structure on government spending; how the structure of public retirement policies has encouraged early retirement in some countries and not others; the response of local community spending to demographic change; and related topics. Contributors include many of the world's leading public finance economists and economic demographers
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Umfang:1 online resource (xvii, 446 pages)
ISBN:9780511528545
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511528545