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...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Section 1 - Demographic Changes and Transfer Systems, between Equity and Sustainability
• Introduction to section 1
• 1. Gustavo DE SANTIS: The Demographic Phases and the Almost Ideal Pension System (AIPS)
• 2. Fernando GIL-ALONSO: Ageing and Policies: Pension Systems Under Pressure
• 3. Luc GODBOUT, Suzie ST-CERNY, Pier-André BOUCHARD ST-AMANT and Pierre FORTIN: Quebec's Public Finances between Demographic Changes and Fiscal Sustainability
• SECTION 2 - Economic Security in Old Age
• Introduction to section 2
• 4. Jacques LEGARE and Amélie COSSETTE: Comparing the economic well-being of baby-boomers and their parents in Quebec and Ontario
• 5. Jinkook LEE and Drystan PHILLIPS: Income and Poverty among Older Koreans: Relative Contributions of and Relationship between Public and Family Transfers
• 6. Taizo MOTONISHI: Heterogeneous Elderly Parents and Intergenerational Transfers in Japan
• SECTION 3 - Time is on Whose Side? Mutual Support and Exchanges Between Generations
• Introduction to section 3
• 7. Janice A. KEEFE, Jacques LEGARE, Patrick CHARBONNEAU and Yann DÉCARIE: Intergenerational Support to Older Canadians by Their Adult Children: Implications for the Future
• 8. Valeria BORDONE: Social Norms and Intergenerational Relationships
• 9. Maria Letizia TANTURRI: How Much Does a Child Cost Its Parents in Terms of Time in an Aged Society? An Estimate for Italy with Time-Use Survey Data.