Format:
Online-Ressource (252 p.)
ISBN:
9780226116082
Series Statement:
NBER-Long-Term Factors in Economic Devel
Content:
Winner of the 1998 Paul A. Samuelson Award given by TIAA-CREF, The Evolution of Retirement is the first comprehensive economic history of retirement in America. With life expectancies steadily increasing, the retirement rate of men over age 64 has risen drastically. Dora L. Costa looks at factors underlying this increase and shows the dramatic implications of her findings for both the general public and the U.S. government. Using statistical, and demographic concepts, Costa sheds light on such important topics as rising incomes and retirement, work and disease, the job prospects of older worke
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Description based upon print version of record
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The Evolution of Retirement; Contents; Preface; 1. The Problem of Old Age; 2. The Evolution of Retirement; 3. Income and Retirement; 4. Work and Disease; 5. The Older Worker; 6. Displacing the Family; 7. The Rise of the Leisured Class; 8. Pensions and Politics; 9. Looking to the Future; Appendix A: Union Army Pensions and Civil War Records; References; Name Index; Subject Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226116228
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226116082
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Evolution of Retirement : An American Economic History, 1880-1990
Language:
English
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