Reading List | Conference on Aging of Populations |
Conference Volumes:
Linda G. Martin and Samuel H. Preston, (editors) Demography of Aging, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1994.
John Ermisch and Naohiro Ogawa, (editors), The Family, the Market and the State in Ageing Societies, Clarendon Press, Oxford England, 1994.
David Wise (editor), Studies in The Economics of Aging, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Olivia S. Mitchel, (editor), As the Workforce Ages: Costs, Benefits, and Policy Challenges, ILR Press, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1993.
Anna M. Rappaport and Sylvester J. Schreiber, (editors) Demography and Retirement: the Twenty-first Century, Praeger, Westport, Conn., 1993,
Paul Johnson and Klaus F. Zimmerman, (editors), Labor Markets in an Aging Europe, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1993.
Nico van Nimwegen, Jean-Claude Chenais and Pearl Dykstra, (editors) Coping with Sustained Low Fertility in France and the Netherlands, Swets and Zeitlinger Press, Berwyn Pennsylvania, 1993, pp 227-247.
Dieter Bos and Sijbren Cnossen, (editors), Fiscal Implications of an Aging Population, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1992.
William J. Serow, David F. Sly and Michael J. Wrigley, Population Aging in the United States, Greenwood Press, New York, 1990.
David Wise (editor), The Economics of Aging, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Monographs:
Sylvester Scheiber and John B. Shoven, The Consequences of Population Aging on Private Pension Fund Saving and Asset Markets, NBER Working Paper, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass., No. 4665, March, 1994.
Axel Borsh-Supan, Ageing in Germany and the United States: International Comparisons, NBER Working Paper, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass., No. 4530, Nov. 1993.
George Stolnitz, Demographic Causes and Economic Consequences of Population Aging: Europe and North America, United Nations/ Economic Commission for Europe Economic Studies, No. 3, 1992.
Michael D. Hurd, The Effects of Demographic Trends on Consumption, Saving and Government Expenditures in the U.S., NBER Working Paper, No. 4601, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 1993.
Ronald D. Lee, Population Aging and its Social and Economic Consequences, Program in Population Research Working Paper, No. 32, June 1992. University of California, Institute of International Studies, Program in Population Research, Berkeley, California.
Paul Johnson and Jane Falkingham, Ageing and Economic Welfare, Sage Publications, Newberry Park, California, 1992.
James H. Schulz, The Economics of Aging, Fourth Edition, Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1991.
James H. Schulz, The World Aging Situation 1991, United Nations Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs, Vienna, Austria.
William C. Cockerham, This Aging Society, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New
Jersey, 1991.
Henry J. Aaron, Barry P. Bosworth and Gary Burtless, Can America Afford to Grow Old?, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., 1989.
Articles:
GENERAL
Charles F. Longino, "Myths of an Ageing America", American Demographics, Vol. 16, No. 8, August 1994, pp. 36-42.
Toshio Kuroda, "Population Ageing in Asia and its Economic and Social Implications", Asian Population Studies Series, No. 124, November 1993, pp. 155-159.
Richard A. Easterlin, "The Economic Impact of Prospective Changes in Advanced Industrial Countries: An Historical Perspective", Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, Vol. 46, No. 6, Nov. 1991, pp. S299-309.
Axel Borsch-Supan, "Aging Population: Problems and Policy Options in the U.S. and Germany", Economic Policy, Vol. 12, 1991, pp. 103-139.
D. M. Cutler, James M. Poterba, Louise M. Scheiner and Lawrence H. Summers, "An Aging Society: Opportunity or Challenge?", Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Vol. 1, 1990, pp. 1-56.
George A. Akerlof, "An Aging Society: Opportunity or Challenge?, Comment", Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Vol. 1, 1990, pp. 57-62
Martin N. Bailey, "An Aging Society: Opportunity or Challenge?, Comment", Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Vol. 1, 1990, pp. 63-67.
P. R. Masson and R. W. Tryon, "Macroeconomic Effects of Projected Population Aging in Industrial Countries", International Monetary Fund Staff Papers, September, 1990. Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 453-485.
Henry J. Aaron, Barry P. Bosworth and Gary Burtless, Can America Afford to Grow Old?, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Chs. 1,5,6,7.
POPULATION AGING AND THE ACCUMULATION OF PRIVATE AND PUBLIC WEALTH
Alan M. Taylor, "Debt, Dependence and the Demographic Transition", World Development, Vol. 23, No. 5, 1994, pp. 869-879.
Gurdip S. Bakshi and Zhiwu Chen, "Baby Boom, Population Aging and Capital Markets", Journal of Business, April 1994, Vol. 67, No. 2, pp. 165-202.
Angus S. Deaton and Christina S. Paxson, "Saving, Growth and Aging in Taiwan' in
David Wise (editor), Studies in The Economics of Aging, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Michael D. Hurd, "Research on the Elderly: Economic Status, Retirement and Consumption and Saving", in the Journal of Economic Literature, Volume XXVIII, Number 2, June 1990, pp. 565-637.
INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSFERS AND LIFE CYCLE SAVING
Ronald D. Lee, and Timothy Miller, "Population Age Structure, Intergenerational Transfer, and Wealth. A New Approach With Applications to the United States", in Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 29, No. 4, Fall 1994, pp. 1027-1063.
Alan M. Taylor and Jeffrey G. Williamson, "Capital Flows to the New World as an Intergenerational Transfer", Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 102, no. 2, April 1994, pp. 348-371.
Ronald Lee, "The Formal Demography of Population Aging, Transfers, and the Economic Life Cycle" in Linda G. Martin and Samuel H. Preston, (editors) Demography of Aging, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1994, pp. 8-49.
Ronald Lee, "Fertility, Mortality and Intergenerational Transfer: Comparisons Across Steady States" in John Ermisch and Naohiro Ogawa, (editors), The Family, the Market and the State in Ageing Societies, Clarendon Press, Oxford England, 1994, pp. 135-157.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Timothy Smeeding, "Income, Wealth and Intergenerational Economic Relations of the Aged" in Linda G. Martin and Samuel H. Preston, (editors) Demography of Aging, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1994, pp. 102-145.
Hemuth Cremer, Dennis Kessler and Pierre Pestieau, "Public and Private Intergenerationanal Transfers: Evidence and a Simple Model" in John Ermisch and Naohiro Ogawa, (editors), The Family, the Market and the State in Ageing Societies, Clarendon Press, Oxford England, 1994, pp. 216-231.
David N. Weil, "The Saving of the Elderly in Micro and Macro Data", Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 1994, Vol. 109, No. 1, pp. 55-81.
William G. Gale and John Karl Scholz, "Intergenerational Transfers and the Accumulation of Wealth", in The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 8, Number 4, 1994, pp. 145-160.
David N. Weil, Intergenerational Transfers, Aging and Uncertainty, NBER Working Paper No. 4477, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge Massachusetts, September, 1993.
Axel Borsch-Supan, "Saving and Consumption Patterns of the Elderly: the German Case", Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 5, No. 4, November 1992, pp. 289-303.
Daphne T. Geenwood and Edward N. Wolff, "Changes in Wealth in the United states 1962-1983: Savings, Capital Gains, Inheritance and Lifetime Transfers", Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 5, No. 4, November 1992, pp. 261-288.
Sergio Perelman and Piere Pesiteau, "Inheritance and Wealth Composition" Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 5, No. 4, November 1992, pp. 305-317.
Dennis Kessler and Andre' Masson, "Bequest and Wealth Accumulation: Are Some Pieces of the Puzzle Missing?", in The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 3, Summer 1989, pp. 141-152.
Franco Modigliani "The Role of Intergenerational Transfers and Life Cycle Saving in the Accumulation of Wealth", in The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 2, Number 2, 1988, pp. 15-40.
Laurence J. Kotlikoff, "Intergenerational Transfers and Savings", in The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 2, Number 2, 1988, pp. 41-58.
SOCIAL SECURITY
Sylvester J. Scheiber, "Can Our Social Insurance Systems Survive the Demographic Shifts of the Twenty-First Century?" in Anna M. Rappaport and Sylvester J. Schreiber, (editors) Demography and Retirement: the Twenty-first Century, Praeger, Westport, Conn., 1993, pp. 111-173.
Gary Burtless, "The Fiscal Challenge of an Aging Population" in Olivia S. Mitchel, (editor), As the Workforce Ages: Costs, Benefits, and Policy Challenges, ILR Press, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1993, Ch. 11, pp.225-252.
Carolyn L. Weaver, "Social Security in Aging Societies", Population and Development Review, Supplement 1986, 12, pp. 273-294.
POPULATION AGING AND THE SUPPLY OF LABOR
Aging of the labor force
Fiorella Padoa Scioppa Kostoris, "Demographic Influences on OECD Labor Market: Is There a Problem? Are There Solutions?", in Labour, Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 1993, pp. 181-208.
Nico Keiman, "Demographic Trends and the Labor Market in the Netherlands" in Nico van Nimwegen, Jean-Claude Chenais and Pearl Dykstra, (editors) Coping with Sustained low Fertility in France and the Netherlands, Swets and Zeitlinger Press, Berwyn Pennsylvania, 1993, pp 201-225.
Didier Blanchet and Olivier Marchand, "Adjusting to a Declining and Aging Labor Force in France", in Nico van Nimwegen, Jean-Claude Chenais and Pearl Dykstra, (editors) Coping with Sustained low Fertility in France and the Netherlands, Swets and Zeitlinger Press, Berwyn Pennsylvania, 1993, pp 227-247.
Retirement
Joseph F. Quinn and Richard V. Burkhauser, "Retirement and Labor Force Behaviour of the Elderly" in Linda G. Martin and Samuel H. Preston, (editors) Demography of Aging, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1994, pp. 50-101.
W. J. Wiatrowski, "Factors Affecting Retirement Income", Monthly Labor Review, March 1993, Vol. 116, No. 3, pp. 25-35.
Murray Gendell and Jacob S. Siegel, "Retirement Quandary: More Retirees at Younger Ages, Living longer", Population Today, Vol. 21, No. 3, March 1993, pp. 6-7,9.
A. P. Bartel and N. Sicherman, "Technological Change and Retirement Decisions of Older Workers", Journal of Labor Economics, Part 1, January 1993, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 162-183.
M. V. Leonesio, "Social Security and Older Workers", in Social Security Bulletin, Vol. 56, No. 2, Summer, 1993, pp. 47-57.
Robert L. Clark, "Population Ageing and Retirement Policy: An International; Perspective" in Anna M. Rappaport and Sylvester J. Schreiber, (editors) Demography and Retirement: the Twenty-first Century, Praeger, Westport, Conn., 1993, pp. 255-295.
Murray Gendell and Jacob S. Seigel, "Trends in Retirement Age by Sex, 1950-2005, Monthly Labor Review, July 1992, Vol. 115, No. 7, pp. 22-29.
Gary Burtless and Alicia Munnell, "Does a Trend Toward Early Retirement Create Problems for the Economy?", New England Economic Review, November-December 1990, pp. 17-32.
Employment
Naohiro Ogawa, Noriko O. Tsuya, Malinee Wongsith, Ehn-Hyun Choe, "Health Status of the Elderly and their Labor Force Participation in the Developing Countries Along the Asia-Pacific Rim" in Human Resources in Development Along the Asia-Pacific Rim, edited by Naohiro Ogawa and Gavin W. Jones and Jeffrey Williamson, Oxford University Press, South-East Asian Publishing Unit, Singapore, 1993, pp. 349-372.
Peter Uhlenberg, "Population Aging and Social Policy", in Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 18, 1992, pp. 449-523.
Michael C. Barth and William McNaught, "The Impact of Future Demographic Shifts on the Employment of Older Workers", Human Resources Management, Vol. 30, No. 1, Spring 1991, pp. 31-44.
Toshio Kuroda, "Aging Labor Force and Technical Progress- The Japanese Experience", in Economic and Social Implications of Population Aging, New York, United Nations, 1988, pp. 145-158.
Jerzy Holzer, "Work Participation of the Elderly Population", in Economic and Social Implications of Population Aging, New York, United Nations, 1988, pp. 159-169.
Keiichiro Matsushita, "Economic Implications of Aging of the Labor Force", in Economic and Social Implications of Population Aging, New York, United Nations, 1988, pp. 170-193.
INTERGENERATIONAL CONFLICT
William A. Jackson, "The Economics of Aging and the Political Economy of Old Age", International Review of Applied Economics, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1994, pp. 31-45.
William A. Jackson, "Population Aging and Intergenerational Conflict: A Post- Keynesian View", Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 19, No. 2, 1992, pp. 26-37.
Stephen Katz, "Alarmist Demography: Power, Knowledge and the Elderly Population", Journal of Aging Studies, Vol. 6, No. 3, Fall 1992, pp. 203-225.
S. E. H. Jensen, and S. B. Neilsen, Population Ageing, Public Debt and Sustainable Fiscal Policy", in Fiscal Studies, May 1995, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 1-20.
THE AGING OF CITY POPULATIONS
Robert L. Clark, "Ageing Urban Populations and the Economic Vitality of the Cities of the World" in Aging and Urbanization, New York, United Nations, 1991, pp. 239-246.