The Family, the Market or the State? Intergenerational Support Under Pressure in Ageing Societies /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: De Santis, Gustavo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: International Studies in Population ; 100
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Statistics.; Social policy.; Population.; Demography.; Social Sciences.; Population Economics.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.; Social Policy.

This book touches upon a few of the major challenges that all modern societies will have to face in the near future: how to set up a resilient pay-as-you-go pension system; whether the current balance between expenses and revenues in social expenditure is viable in the future, and, if not, what chan...