Population Ageing - A Threat to the Welfare State? The Case of Sweden /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Bengtsson, Tommy (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Σειρά: Demographic Research Monographs, A series of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research,
• Θέματα: Public finance.; Economic policy.; Social policy.; Population.; Aging.; Demography.; Economics.; Economic Policy.; Population Economics.; Public Economics.; Social Policy.

This book is the first to take a comprehensive view of the challenges that population ageing present in the near future taking Sweden as the case. Can the increasing number of retirees per worker be stopped by immigration or increasing fertility or will we need to increase pension age instead? Cost...

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• The Ageing Population
• In This World Nothing Is Certain but Death and Taxes: Financing the Elderly
• A Stable Pension System: The Eighth Wonder
• Ways of Funding and Organising Elderly Care in Sweden
• Financing Healthcare: A Gordian Knot Waiting to Be Cut
• Towards a New Swedish Model?.