Population ageing - a threat to the welfare state? the case of Sweden /
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...
| Other Authors: | Bengtsson, Tommy., SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Heidelberg ; New York :
Springer-Verlag,
©2010.
Heidelberg ; New York : [2010] |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xv, 123 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
| Series: |
Demographic research monographs.
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Table of Contents:
- t. Bengtsson: Introduction
- T. Bengtsson, K. Scott: The Ageing Population
- A. Hansson: In this World Nothing Is Certain but Death and Taxes: Financing the Elderly
- A. Kruse: A Stable Pension System
- The Eighth Wonder
- P.G. Edebalk: Ways of Funding and Organising Elderly Care in Sweden
- B. Lindgren, C.H. Lyttkens: Financing Health Care
- A Gordian Knot Waiting to Be Cut
- A. Bergh: Towards a New Swedish Model?