Social Security and Retirement Around the World

by Jonathan Gruber

Book Overview

What accounts for the striking decline in labor force participation at increasingly younger ages? Social Security and Retirement around the World examines one explanation: social security programs actually provide incentives for early retirement. This volume houses a set of remarkable papers that present information on the social security systems, and labor force participation patterns, in Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226310116
• ISBN13: 9780226310114
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"