Private Intergenerational Transfers and Population Aging: The German Case

by Erik Lüth

In the forthcoming decades the industrialized countries will experience a demographic transition that is unprecedented in history. While the transition's impact on public pension schemes has extensively been examined, its implication for private intergenerational transfers has gone almost unnoticed by the literature. This study attempts to make up for that gap in the literature. It gives a comprehensive overview of private transfer patterns in Germany,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3790814024
• ISBN13: 9783790814026
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Physica-Verlag
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"