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Shoven John B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226754727, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2011
448 pp., 23.2x15.6 cm, 61 tables, 140 line illus.

Demographics is a vital field of study for understanding social and economic change and it has attracted attention in recent years as concerns have grown over the aging populations of developed nations. Demographic studies help make sense of key aspe...

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Labor in the New Economy

Abraham Katharine G., Spletzer James R., Harper Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226001432, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2010
568 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 54 tables, 174 line illus.

As the structure of the economy has changed over the past few decades, researchers and policy makers have been increasingly concerned with how these changes affect workers. In this book, leading economists examine a variety of important trends in the...

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Economic Consequences of Demographic Change in East Asia

Ito Takatoshi, Rose Andrew K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226386850, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2010
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 66 figures, 82 tables, 1 halftone

Recent studies show that almost all industrial countries have experienced dramatic decreases in both fertility and mortality rates. This situation has led to aging societies with economies that suffer from both a decline in the working population and...

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Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 24

Brown Jeffrey R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226076744, ISBN: HB: 9780226076737, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2010
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Tax Policy and the Economy" publishes current academic research findings on taxation and government spending that have both immediate bearing on policy debates and longer-term interest. The papers in this volume range from topics as broad as the rel...

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Targeting Investments in Children Fighting Poverty When Resources Are Limited

Levine Phillip B., Zimmerman David J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226475813, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2010
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 tables, 19 line illus.

A substantial number of American children experience poverty: about 17 percent of those under the age of eighteen meet the government's definition, and the proportion is even greater within minority groups. Childhood poverty can have lifelong effects...

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NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2009 Volume 24

Acemoglu Daron, Rogoff Kenneth, Woodford Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226002101, ISBN: HB: 9780226002095, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2010
440 pp., 23x15 cm, 41 line illus.

The "NBER Macroeconomics Annual" provides a forum for important debates in contemporary macroeconomics and major developments in the theory of macroeconomic analysis and policy that include leading economists from a variety of fields. The papers and...

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NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2009 Volume 6

Reichlin Lucrezia, West Kenneth

ISBN: PB: 9780226707501, ISBN: HB: 9780226707495, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2010
500 pp., 23x15 cm, 60 line illus.

The distinguished International Seminar on Macroeconomics (ISoM) has met annually in Europe for thirty years. The papers included in this volume discuss openness and the fall and rise of stock market correlations between 1890 and 2001; defaults, unde...

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International Differences in Entrepreneurship

Lerner Josh, Schoar Antoinette

ISBN: HB: 9780226473093, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2010
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 80 tables, 52 line illus.

Often considered one of the major forces behind economic growth and development, the entrepreneurial firm can accelerate the speed of innovation and dissemination of new technologies, thus increasing a country's competitive edge in the global market....

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Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World The Relationship to Youth Employment

Gruber Jonathan, Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226309484, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2010
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 63 tables, 161 line illus.

Many countries have social security systems that are currently financially unsustainable. Economists and policy makers have long studied this problem and identified two key causes. First, as declining birth rates raise the share of older persons in t...

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Reforming the Welfare State Recovery and Beyond in Sweden

Freeman Richard B., Swedenborg Birgitta, Topel Robert H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226261928, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2010
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 54 tables, 75 line illus.

Over the course of the twentieth century, Sweden carried out one of the most ambitious experiments by a capitalist market economy in developing a large and active welfare state. Sweden's generous social programs and the economic equality they fostere...

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