Stations of the Lost
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr (Tx)
Published: December 1979
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 459
ISBN-13: 9780226903095
Subjects: Alcoholics; Rehabilitation; United States
First sentence: To the average person, the term Skid Row immediately brings to mind a grey, slum-like section of town peopled with society's misfits and cast-offs, poverty-stricken men who have failed to make it in the competitive world and are now eking out an existence in an alcoholic haze amid environmental squalor and human misery.
Description: "In nearly every industrialized country, large aging populations and increased life expectancy have placed enormous pressure on social security programs - and, until recently, the pressure has been compounded by a trend toward retirement at an earlier age. With a larger fraction of the population receiving benefits, social security in many countries may soon have to be reformed in order to remain financially viable. This volume offers a cross-country analysis of the effects of disability insurance programs on labor force participation by older workers. Drawing on measures of health that are comparable across countries, it explores how differences in the labor force are determined by disability insurance programs and to what extent reforms are prompted by the circumstances of a country's elderly."