Aging Issues in the United States and Japan
Seiritsu Ogura, Toshiaki Tachibanaki, and David A. Wise
Abstract
The population base in both the United States and Japan is growing older and, as those populations age, they provoke heretofore unexamined economic consequences. This comparative volume, the third in the joint series offered by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Japan Center for Economic Research, explores those consequences, drawing specific attention to four key areas: incentives for early retirement; savings, wealth, and asset allocation over the life cycle; health care and health care reform; and population projections. Given the undeniable global importance of the Japanese a ... More
The population base in both the United States and Japan is growing older and, as those populations age, they provoke heretofore unexamined economic consequences. This comparative volume, the third in the joint series offered by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Japan Center for Economic Research, explores those consequences, drawing specific attention to four key areas: incentives for early retirement; savings, wealth, and asset allocation over the life cycle; health care and health care reform; and population projections. Given the undeniable global importance of the Japanese and U.S. economies, these chapters shed light on the complex correlations between aging and economic behavior. This work not only deepens our understanding of the Japanese and American economic landscapes but, through careful examination of the comparative social and economic data, clarifies the complex relation between aging societies, public policies, and economic outcomes.
Keywords:
early retirement,
savings,
wealth,
asset allocation,
health care,
population projections,
aging,
economic behavior,
public policies,
population base
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2001 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780226620817 |
| Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: February 2013 |
DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226620831.001.0001 |
