Product Description: As the average age of the population continues to rise in industrialized nations, the fiscal impacts of aging demand ever-closer attention. Closing the Deficit examines one oft-discussed approach to the issue—encouraging people to work longer than they now do...read more

Product Description: Tentative contents include: • How the Rust Belt Got Shiny: A Study of Cities and Counties that Lost Steel and Auto Jobs in the 1980s Bruce Sacerdote (Dartmouth College) • Homeowners and the Housing Enterprises: Banks and Market Efficiency Robert Van Order (University of Michigan) • Home Mortgages and the Mortgage System: What Role for Government Sponsored Enterprises? Dwight Jaffee and John M...read more

Product Description: Designed to reach a wide audience of scholars and policymakers, the Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs is an annual series that serves as a forum for cutting-edge, accessible research on urban policy. Tentative contents include: •Growth of Medium-Size Cities in China Vernon Henderson (Brown University) • The Effects on Driving Patterns, Commuting Times, and Air Quality of New Public Projects to Expand Urban Rail Transit Matthew Kahn (Tufts University) and Nathaniel Baum-Snow (University of Chicago) • State Fiscal Constraints and Higher Education Spending Peter Orszag (Brookings) and Thomas Kane (UCLA) • Looking Back to Look Forward: What Can We Learn from Philadelphia's 350 Year History? Joseph Gyourko (University of Pennsylvania) • The Effect of California's Proposition 13 on Mobility Nada Wasi and Michelle White (University of California, San Diego) •Metropolitan Migration in the U...read more

Product Description: Friedlander and Burtless teach us why welfare reform will not be easy. Their sobering assessment of job training programs willenlighten a debate too often dominated by wishful thinking and political rhetoric. Look for their findings to be cited for many years to come...read more

Product Description: Many believe that American education can only be improved with a sizable infusion of new resources into the nation's schools. Others find little evidence that large increases in spending lead to improvements in educational performance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: For nearly two decades the U.S. economy has been plagued by two disturbing economic trends: the slowdown in the growth rates of productivity and average real wages and the increase in wage and income inequality. The federal budget is in chronic deficit...read more

Analyzes trends in the distribution of jobs and wages during the past twenty years, and forecasts the future employment outlook

Analyzes trends in the distribution of jobs and wages during the past twenty years, and forecasts the future employment outlook

Product Description: Contents include: Introduction and Summary Public Policy Implications of Declining Old-Age Mortality Aging the Ability to Work: Policy Issues and Recent Trends Occupational Effects on the Health and Work Capacity of Older Men Involuntary Early Retirement and Consumption Life-Cycle Labor Supply and Social Security: A Time-Series Analysis Life Insurance of the Elderly: Its Adequacy and Determinan...read more