Ageing in Advanced Industrial States; Contents; Introduction; Dynamics of Demographic Transitions; Fiscal Dynamics and Projections; Wealth and Health; Family and Care; Time Use and Labour; Bibliography; Part I: Dynamics of Transitions; Age-Structural Transitions in Industrialized Countries; On Age Structures and Mortality; Long-Run Relationships in Differential U.S. Mortality Forecasts by Race and Sex: Tests for Co-integration; Part II: Fiscal Dynamics and Projections; Uncertain Demographic Futures and Government Budgets in the US
Summary
Population growth slowed across the world in the last decades of the 20th century, changing substantially our view of the future. The 21st century is likely to see the end to world population growth and become the century of population aging, marked by low fertility and ever-increasing life expectancy. These trends have prompted many to predict a gloomy future caused by an unprecedented economic burden of population aging. In response, industrialized nations will need to implement effective social and economic policies and programs. This is the final volume in a series of three. The papers inc