Economics and Ageing : Volume III: Long-term Care and Finance

This upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of individual and population ageing. Placing economic considerations into a wider social sciences context, this is ideal reading not only for advanced undergraduate and masters students in health economics and economics of ageing, but policy makers, professionals and practitioners in gerontology, sociology, health-related sciences, and social care. This volume introduces topics in labour economics, including the economic implications of ageing workforces. It covers pension economics and pension systems with their macroeconomic and distributive effects, and the question of risk. Finally, it describes macroeconomic consequences of ageing populations on aggregate saving, inflation, international trade, and financial markets.-- Provided by publisher Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 The Older Labour Force (José Luis Iparraguirre)....Pages 3-126 Chronological Age and Labour Productivity (José Luis Iparraguirre)....Pages 127-197 Age Discrimination and Stereotypes (José Luis Iparraguirre)....Pages 199-228 Front Matter ....Pages 229-229 Pensions and Pension Schemes (José Luis Iparraguirre)....Pages 231-282 Macroeconomic Aspects (José Luis Iparraguirre)....Pages 283-321 Distributive and Actuarial Elements (José Luis Iparraguirre)....Pages 323-363 Pensions and Risk (José Luis Iparraguirre)....Pages 365-394 Front Matter ....Pages 395-395 Ageing and Economic Growth and Development (José Luis Iparraguirre)....Pages 397-527 Other Macroeconomic Implications of Population Ageing (José Luis Iparraguirre)....Pages 529-588 Back Matter ....Pages 589-594