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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bengtsson, Tommy (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Demographic Research Monographs, A series of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research,
• Subjects: 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...