Title

Social security and retirement around the world / edited by Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gruber, Jonathan.
• Wise, David A.

Description

ix, 486 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report

Uniform Title

Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)

Subjects

• Retirement income > Congresses
• Older people > Economic conditions > Congresses
• Social security > Congresses
• Old age pensions > Congresses

Note

• "Papers presented at a conference held at Château Beychevelle, Saint Julien, France, in May 1997"--Pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction and Summary / Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise -- 1. Social Security and Retirement in Belgium / Pierre Pestieau and Jean-Philippe Stijns -- 2. Social Security and Retirement in Canada / Jonathan Gruber -- 3. Social Security and Retirement in France / Didier Blanchet and Louis-Paul Pele -- 4. Social Security and Retirement in Germany / Axel Borsch-Supan and Reinhold Schnabel -- 5. Social Security and Retirement in Italy / Agar Brugiavini -- 6. Social Security and Retirement in Japan / Naohiro Yashiro and Takashi Oshio -- 7. Social Security and Retirement in the Netherlands / Arie Kapteyn and Klaas de Vos -- 8. Social Security and Retirement in Spain / Michele Boldrin, Sergi Jimenez-Martin and Franco Peracchi -- 9. Social Security, Occupational Pensions, and Retirement in Sweden / Marten Palme and Ingemar Svensson -- 10. Pensions and Retirement in the United Kingdom / Richard Blundell and Paul Johnson --
• 11. Social Security and Retirement in the United States / Peter Diamond and Jonathan Gruber.

ISBN

0226310116 (cloth)

LCCN

98022488

OCLC

• 39052429
• ocm39052429

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries