Social security programs and retirement around the world
Subtitle: fiscal implications of reform
By: edited by Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise.
Contributors: Gruber, Jonathan.; Wise, David A.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 541
ISBN-13: 9780226310176
Subjects: Social security -- Finance; Retirement -- Economic aspects; Retirement income; Older people -- Employment
Notes: This volume presents the third phase of the project.

An analysis and country-by-country comparison of the effects of social security incentives on retirement behavior in Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the UK, and the United States.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Microsimulation of social security reforms in Belgium / Raphael Desmet, Alain Jousten, Sergio Perelman, and Pierre Pestieau; title: Simulating the response to reform of Canada's income security programs / Michael Baker, Jonathan Gruber, and Kevin Milligan; title: Fiscal implications of reforms in retirement systems in Denmark / Paul Bingley, Nabanita Datta Gupta, and Peder J. Pedersen; title: Simulating retirement behavior : the case of France / Emmanuelle Walraet and Ronan Mahieu; title: The budget impact of reduced early retirement incentives on the German public pension system / Axel Börsch-Supan, Simone Kohnz, and Reinhold Schnabel; title: Fiscal implications of pension reforms in Italy / Agar Brugiavini and Franco Peracchi; title: Financial implications of social security reforms in Japan / Akiko S. Oishi and Takashi Oshio; title: Simulation of pension reforms in the Netherlands / Arie Kapteyn and Klaas de Vos; title: Evaluating Spanish pension expenditure under alternative reform scenarios / Michele Boldrin and Sergi Jimènez-Martin; title: Financial implications of income security reforms in Sweden / Mårten Palme and Ingemar Svensson; title: Fiscal effects of reforming the UK state pension system / Richard Blundell and Carl Emmerson; title: Fiscal effects of social security reform in the United States / Courtney Coile and Jonathan Gruber.