Allocating Public and Private Resources across Generations : Riding the Age Waves - Volume 2

Anne H. Gauthier

ISBN 10: 1402047908 / ISBN 13: 9781402047909

Edité par Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands, 2007

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Allocating Public and Private Resources across Generations : Riding the Age Waves - Volume 2
• Éditeur: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands
• Date de parution: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1402047908
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781402047909
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 240 L x 160 H x 18 P (en millimètres) 240 millimètres de largeur par 160 millimètres de hauteur par 18 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 520 grammes

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This book explores how demographic changes effect inter-generational transfers of time, money, goods, and services, which plays 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, namely goods, money, assets, time, co-residence and visits. It addition, the material in the book goes beyond the study of traditional parent - child transfers to examine transfers to kins and the bi-directionality of transfers. It will be of interest to demographers, public policy researchers and analysts, economists, sociologists, strategic planners.