United States and Ageing
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- Mortality differentials should not be used as an argument against increases in the retirement age
- E.A. Whitehouse; A. Zaidi / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2008
- The report discusses implications of mortality differentials for five major areas of pension policy: the progressivity of the pension system, the pension eligibility age, the retirement incentives, future pension expenditures and priv...
- Style guide to using non-ageist language
- N.D. Dahmen; R. Cozma / International Longevity Center (USA), 2008
- Older adults have the right to fair and accurate portrayal of their stories and their issues. This document outlines the ageist depiction of older adults and provides the necessary tools for professionals to help proactively com...
- The importance of living arrangements in poverty avoidance for older persons
- T. Smeeding; Q. Gao; P. Saunders; C. Wing / Luxembourg Income Study, 2008
- In most rich countries, poverty among younger pensioners (under age 70) is no longer a major policy problem, but women typically constitute two-thirds to three-quarters or more of the elderly poor in rich countries. Poverty in rich na...
- Extracting housing equity will impact on future retirees
- A.H. Munnell; M. Soto / Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2008
- House prices rose 60 percent between 2000 and 2007 before the housing bubble burst in the United States. Has the housing boom made people better or worse prepared for retirement? This brief explores how the rise in house pr...
- How to measure the distributional effects of Social Security reform
- E.J. Toder / Urban Institute, USA, 2008
- As the US Social Security system faces demographic challenges, distributional analysis will play an important role in designing policies which ensure its fiscal solvency. Most notably, policy makers will be concerned about the distrib...
- Low rates of return offset the benefits of risk reduction achieved in Notional Defined Contributions pension plans
- A.J. Auerbach; R. Lee / Economics Department, University of California, Berkeley, 2008
- In response to the inefficiencies of Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) pension programmes, some countries such as Sweden have implemented Notional Defined Contribution (NDC) plans. Under NDC, individuals contribute to their own account, but the r...
- Asia is challenged with dealing with the implications of a graying society
- N. Kumar Chadha / Asian Productivity Organization, 2008
- Collection of papers arguing that challenges arising from the increasing number of the aged can only be dealt with by a multipronged approach centered on the family, the society, and the government. The authors of the papers in ...
- How an ageing HIV population is growing
- S.E. Karpiak; R.A. Shippy; M.H. Cantor / AIDS Community Research Initiative of America, 2008
- Almost 27% of all people living with AIDS in the United States are aged over 50. Heterosexual sex is emerging as the current dominant mode of transmission. One decade after the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAA...
- Older Americans have to face up to financial crises
- D. Thorne; E. Warren; T.A. Sullivan / American Association of Retired Persons International Section, 2008
- Using data collected from the 2007 Consumer Bankruptcy Project (CBP), this paper analyses the age distribution of bankruptcy filers over the past 16 years in America. It aims to describe changes in the age of demographics of those fil...
- Indexing social security taxes in the workers to beneficiaries ratio
- A.G. Biggs / American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2008
- This paper examines policies to index social security taxes or benefits to changes in the ratio of workers to beneficiaries, allowing for auto-correction for changing demographic factors that impact system finances. It proposes a clas...
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