05443nam 2200721Ia 450 991080903710332120240418131414.01-281-22361-197866112236180-226-36102-010.7208/9780226361024(CKB)1000000000408449(EBL)408514(OCoLC)476229437(SSID)ssj0000143416(PQKBManifestationID)11164678(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000143416(PQKBWorkID)10112315(PQKB)11785238(MiAaPQ)EBC408514(DE-B1597)535701(OCoLC)781254541(DE-B1597)9780226361024(Au-PeEL)EBL408514(CaPaEBR)ebr10216951(CaONFJC)MIL122361(EXLCZ)99100000000040844919960531d1997 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrThe economic effects of aging in the United States and Japan[electronic resource] /edited by Michael D. Hurd and Naohiro Yashiro1st ed.Chicago University of Chicago Press19971 online resource (376 p.)A National Bureau of Economic Research conference reportPapers presented at a joint Japan Center for Economic Research-National Bureau of Economic Research conference heod in Hakone, Japan, in September 1993.0-226-36100-4 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Front matter --Contents --Preface --Introduction --1. Projection of Japanese Public Pension Costs in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century and the Effects of Three Possible Reforms --2. The Effects of Demographic Trends on Consumption, Saving, and Government Expenditures in the United States --3. Population Aging and the Saving s-Investment Balance in Japan --4. The Economic Position of the Elderly in Japan --5. The Consequences of Population Aging for Private Pension Fund Saving and Asset Markets --6. The Effects of Aging on National Saving and Asset Accumulation in Japan --7. The Impact of Demographics on Housing and Nonhousing Wealth in the United States --8. Improvement of After- Retirement Income by Home Equity Conversion Mortgages: Possibility and Problems in Japan --9. The Effects of Special Saving Programs on Saving and Wealth --10. The Economic Status of the Elderly in Japan: Microdata Findings --11. Retirement Incentives: The Interaction between Employer-Provided Pensions, Social Security, and Retiree Health Benefits --12. Labor Market Implications of Social Security: Company Pension Plans, Public Pensions, and Retirement Behavior of the Elderly in Japan --13. Changing Social Security Survivorship Benefits and the Poverty of Widows --14. The Net Pension Debt of the Japanese Government --Contributors --Author Index --Subject IndexDue to falling fertility rates, the aging of the baby-boom cohort, and increases in life expectancy, the percentage of the population that is elderly is expected to increase rapidly in the United States and Japan over the next two decades. These fourteen essays show that, despite differences in culture and social and government structure, population aging will have many similar macro and micro effects on the economic status and behavior of the elderly in both countries. The most obvious effects will be on social programs such as public pension systems and the provision for medical needs of the elderly. But, the contributors demonstrate, aging will also affect markets for labor, capital, housing, and health care services. It will affect firms through their participation in the demand side of the labor market and through their provisions for pensions. And aging will influence saving rates, the rate of return on assets, the balance of payments, and, most likely, economic growth. This volume will interest scholars and policy makers concerned with the economics of aging.Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)Age distribution (Demography)Economic aspectsJapanCongressesAge distribution (Demography)Economic aspectsUnited StatesCongressesOlder peopleJapanEconomic conditionsCongressesOlder peopleUnited StatesEconomic conditionsCongressesaging, sociology, united states, japan, getting older, economy, economics, economic effects, falling fertility rates, baby-boom cohort, life expectancy, aged, age distribution, elderly, essays, essay collection, social issues, behavior, public pension systems, medical needs, health care services, housing, capital, labor, savings, balance of payments, return on assets.Age distribution (Demography)Economic aspectsAge distribution (Demography)Economic aspectsOlder peopleEconomic conditionsOlder peopleEconomic conditions305.26/0973Hurd Michael D125548Yashiro Naohiro1946-1649588MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809037103321The economic effects of aging in the United States and Japan4119187UNINA