Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging (Volume 1B) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0444538402 ISBN 13: 9780444538406

Publisher: North Holland, 2017

Synopsis

Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, Volume 1B provides the economic literature on aging and associated subjects, presenting comprehensive portraits of both social and theoretical issues. As the second of two volumes in this series on the economics of population aging, it continues the discussion, delving deeper into topics such as the labor market and human resource issues, gerontology, history, and the sociological and political ramifications of this fascinating topic whose inception dates back to the late 1970’s.

This volume includes literature that has appeared in general economics journals, in various field journals in economics, especially, but not exclusively, those covering labor market and human resource issues, information from interdisciplinary social science and life science journals, and data presented in papers by economists published in journals associated with gerontology, history, sociology, political science, and demography, amongst others.

• Presents comprehensive portraits of social and theoretical issues that can be used by both policymakers and scholars
• Readers receive diverse perspectives on subjects that can be closely associated with national and regional concerns
• Chapters offer comprehensive, critical reviews and expositions on the essential aspects of the economics of population aging

About this title

About the Authors

John Piggott is Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), and of the Australian Institute for Population Ageing Research at the University of New South Wales, Australia, where he is Scientia Professor of Economics and also holds an ARC Australian Professorial Fellowship. He serves as book review editor of the Cambridge journal, the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, as an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Economics of Aging, and has recently been appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Retirement.

Alan Woodland is currently Scientia Professor of Economics and ARC Australian Professorial Fellow in the School of Economics within the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales. He was previously Professor of Econometrics at the University of Sydney and Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia and the recipient of the Distinguished Economist Award of the Economics Society of Australia. He was previously a member of the Council of the Econometric Society, Chair of the Econometric Society Australasian Standing Committee and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Economics Association.

From the Back Cover

The economic literature on aging and the subjects associated with it, such as social insurance and health care costs, interest policymakers as well as academics. These volumes, the first of a new subseries in the Handbooks in Economics, describe and analyze scholarship created since the inception of serious attention began in the late 1970s. This literature appears in the general economics journals, in various field journals in economics (especially, but not exclusively, those covering labor market and human resource issues), in interdisciplinary social science and life science journals, and in papers by economists published in journals associated with gerontology, history, sociology, political science, and demography, among others. These volumes play a role in the discursive economics literature being united and formulated as a discipline.

Edition details

• Publisher: North Holland
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0444538402
• ISBN 13: 9780444538406
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 600
• Editor: Piggott John, Woodland Alan