TY  - BOOK
AU  - Costa,Dora L.
TI  - The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880-1990
T2  - National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development
SN  - 9780226116228
AV  - HQ1063 
U1  - 306.3/8/0973 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Aging -- Government policy -- United States
KW  - Old age pensions -- United States
KW  - Older people -- United States -- Economic conditions
KW  - Older people -- United States -- Social conditions
KW  - Retirement -- United States -- History
KW  - Social security -- United States
KW  - United States -- Economic policy
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- The Evolution of Retirement -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Problem of Old Age -- 2. The Evolution of Retirement -- 3. Income and Retirement -- 4. Work and Disease -- 5. The Older Worker -- 6. Displacing the Family -- 7. The Rise of the Leisured Class -- 8. Pensions and Politics -- 9. Looking to the Future -- Appendix A: Union Army Pensions and Civil War Records -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index
N2  - Winner of the 1998 Paul A. Samuelson Award given by TIAA-CREF, The Evolution of Retirement is the first comprehensive economic history of retirement in America. With life expectancies steadily increasing, the retirement rate of men over age 64 has risen drastically. Dora L. Costa looks at factors underlying this increase and shows the dramatic implications of her findings for both the general public and the U.S. government. Using statistical, and demographic concepts, Costa sheds light on such important topics as rising incomes and retirement, work and disease, the job prospects of older workers, living arrangements of the elderly, the development of a retirement lifestyle, and pensions and politics. "[Costa's] major contribution is to show that, even without Social Security and Medicare, retirement would have expanded dramatically."-Robert J. Samuelson, New Republic "An important book on a topic which has become popular with historians and is of major significance to politicians and economists."-Margaret Walsh, Business History
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