Demographic Change and Fiscal Policy

Alan J. Auerbach (Curatore)

Ronald D. Lee (Curatore)

Cambridge University Press, 2008

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.

• Curatore: Alan J. Auerbach, Ronald D. Lee
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Anno: 2008
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 468 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 680 gr.
• EAN: 9780521088275

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