The Family, the Market or the State?: Intergenerational Support Under Pressure in Ageing Societies

Book Overview

This book touches upon a few of the major challenges that all modern societies will have to face in the near future: how to set up a resilient pay-as-you-go pension system; whether the current balance between expenses and revenues in social expenditure is viable in the future, and, if not, what changes need to be introduced; whether the relative well-being of the current and future cohorts of the old will be preserved, and how their standards of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9402415904
• ISBN13: 9789402415902
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"