| Allocating Public and Private Resources Across Generations: Riding the Age Waves - Volume 2 2007 Edition Contributor(s): Gauthier, Anne H. (Editor), Chu, C. Y. Cyrus (Editor), Tuljapurkar, Shripad (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1402047908 ISBN-13: 9781402047909 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2007 Annotation: In the 21st century, the populations of the world's nations will display large and long-lived changes in age structure. Demography will matter in this century not by force of numbers, but by the pressures of waves of age structural change. In rapidly industrializing countries, demographic changes continue to have significant effects on the well-being of individuals and families, and as aggregate human and financial capital. These effects may be analyzed in terms of inter-generational transfers of time, money, goods, and services. The chapters in this volume greatly develop our understanding of the nature and measurement of transfers, their motives and mechanisms, and their macro-level dimensions, especially in the context of demographic transitions. The chapters include original empirical analyses of datasets from some twenty countries taking the reader beyond the American context in order to test the applicability of some of the theories developed on the basis of American data. They extend the traditional analysis of inter-generational transfers by examining different types of transfers, namely goods, money, assets, time, co-residence and visits. Furthermore, the chapters go beyond the study of traditional parent ? child transfers to examine transfers to kins and the bi-directionality of transfers. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Methodology - Family & Relationships | Life Stages - Later Years - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 304.6 |
| Series: International Studies in Population |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.00 lbs) 308 pages |
| Themes: - Generational Orientation - Elderly/Aged |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book explores how demographic changes affect inter-generational transfers of time, money, goods, and services, all things that play a role in the well-being of individuals and families. It details the nature and measurement of transfers, their motives and mechanisms, and their macro-level dimensions, especially in the context of demographic transitions. Coverage includes original empirical analyses of datasets from some twenty countries and extends the traditional analysis of inter-generational transfers by examining different types of transfers. |