The Baby Bust Who Will Do the Work? Who Will Pay the Taxes?

by Harris, Fred R.; Billari FBA, Francesco C.; Curtis, Alan; de la Garza, Rodolfo O.; Edelman, Peter; Klein, Herbert S.; Kohler, Hans-Peter; Lynch, Robert G.; Ogawa, Naohiro; Ortega, José Antonio; Retherford, Robert D.

• ISBN13: 9780742538542
• ISBN10: 0742538540
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-06
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Though the world's population continues to grow, total fertility rates are dropping below replacement level in many parts of the world. The Baby Bust, a landmark book of essays by demographic, economic, and political science experts, examines the global birth dearth and its causes, implications, and policy options. Focusing in large part on the United States, this book also includes data from Europe and Japan and makes important comparisons between the three regions. It concludes with suggestions for making America's future sound and prosperous, through the regularization and legalization of appropriate levels of immigration; enhancing governmental efforts to increase productivity; and finally, ending the present waste of so many underutilized members of the workforce, particularly minorities and the poor. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Global Baby Bust
Japan's Baby Bust: Causes, Implications, and Policy Responses	p. 5
Low Fertility in Europe: Causes, Implications, and Policy Options	p. 48
The United States and the Baby Bust
The U.S. Baby Bust in Historical Perspective	p. 113
Combating Child Poverty and Enhancing the Soundness of Social Security	p. 148
Latino Immigrants, National Identity, and the National Interest	p. 175
Ending America's Waste of Its Most Precious Resource-Its People	p. 189
Conclusion	p. 213
References	p. 217
Index	p. 231
About the Contributors	p. 237
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