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9780226620817

Aging Issues in the United States and Japan

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  • ISBN13:

    9780226620817

  • ISBN10:

    0226620816

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-09-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

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Summary

The population base in both the United States and Japan is growing older and, as those populations age, they provoke heretofore unexamined economic consequences. This cutting-edge, comparative volume, the third in the joint series offered by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Japan Center for Economic Research, explores those consequences, drawing specific attention to four key areas: incentives for early retirement; savings, wealth, and asset allocation over the life cycle; health care and health care reform; and population projections. Given the undeniable global importance of the Japanese and U.S. economies, these innovative essays shed welcome new light on the complex correlations between aging and economic behavior. This insightful work not only deepens our understanding of the Japanese and American economic landscapes but, through careful examination of the comparative social and economic data, clarifies the complex relation between aging societies, public policies, and economic outcomes.

Author Biography

Seiritsu Ogura teaches at Hosei University and is a member of the Japan Center for Economic Research.

Toshiaki Tachibanaki is a professor of economics in the Institute for Economic Research at Kyoto University.

David A. Wise is the director of the NBER's program on aging and the John F. Stambaugh Professor of Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is the editor or coeditor of thirteen volumes in the NBER series, all published by the University of Chicago Pres

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction 1(24)
David A. Wise
Choice, Chance, and Wealth Dispersion at Retirement
25(40)
Steven F. Venti
David A. Wise
Household Portfolio Allocation over the Life Cycle
65(40)
James M. Poterba
Andrew A. Samwick
The Social Security System and the Demand for Personal Annuity and Life Insurance: An Analysis of Japanese Microdata, 1990 and 1994
105(30)
Seki Asano
An Empirical Investigation of Intergenerational Consumption Distribution: A Comparison among Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom
135(34)
Makoto Saito
The Third Wave in Health Care Reform
169(18)
David M. Cutler
Concentration and Persistence of Health Care Costs for the Aged
187(36)
Seiritsu Ogura
Reiko Suzuki
The Effects of Demographic Change on Health and Medical Expenditures: A Simulation Analysis
223(26)
Satoshi Nakanishi
Noriyoshi Nakayama
Choice among Employer-Provided Insurance Plans
249(24)
Matthew J. Eichner
Employees' Pension Benefits and the Labor Supply of Older Japanese Workers, 1980s-1990s
273(34)
Yukiko Abe
The Motivations for Business Retirement Policies
307(28)
Richard Woodbury
Promotion, Incentives, and Wages
335(26)
Toshiaki Tachibanaki
Tetsuya Maruyama
What Went Wrong with the 1991-92 Official Population Projection of Japan?
361(42)
Seiritsu Ogura
Contributors 403(2)
Author Index 405(2)
Subject Index 407

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