Social Security and Retirement around the World
University of Chicago Press, 1998
Cloth: 978-0-226-31011-4 | Electronic: 978-0-226-30999-6
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226309996.001.0001
Cloth: 978-0-226-31011-4 | Electronic: 978-0-226-30999-6
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226309996.001.0001
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ABOUT THIS BOOKAUTHOR BIOGRAPHYREVIEWSTABLE OF CONTENTS
ABOUT THIS BOOK
What accounts for the striking decline in labor force participation at increasingly younger ages? Social Security and Retirement around the World examines one explanation: social security programs actually provide incentives for early retirement. This volume houses a set of remarkable papers that present information on the social security systems, and labor force participation patterns, in Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Jonathan Gruber is a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of research for the National Bureau of Economic Research's program on children. David A. Wise is the John F. Stambaugh Professor of Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and director of health and retirement programs at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
REVIEWS
"Like its predecessor NBER volumes from this project, the new book is informative and useful as a reference for social security schemes and looming problems in the covered countries."
— Monika Buetler, Journal of Pension Economics and FinanceTABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction and Summary
1. Social Security and Retirement in Belgium
2. Social Security and Retirement in Canada
3. Social Security and Retirement in France
4. Social Security and Retirement in Germany
5. Social Security and Retirement in Italy
6. Social Security and Retirement in Japan
7. Social Security and Retirement in the Netherlands
8. Social Security and Retirement in Spain
9. Social Security, Occupational Pensions, and Retirement in Sweden
10. Pensions and Retirement in the United Kingdom
11. Social Security and Retirement in the United States
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index