Retirement
As populations age, pension systems around the world are coming under strain. Governments, employers and economists are searching for ways to alleviate the problem - but could traditional societies hold some valuable lessons?
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Sources
Ache Life History: The Ecology and Demography of a Foraging People, 1996, Kim Hill, A. Magdalena Hurtado. Taylor and Francis
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Lean from Traditional Societies?
A History of Public Sector Pensions in the United States. Robert L. Clark, Lee A. Craig and Jack W. Wilson, 2003, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia
Averting the Old Age Crisis: Policies to Protect the Old and Promote Growth, 1994 World Bank
When Nudges Are Forever: Inertia in the Swedish Premium Pension Plan, Henrik Cronqvist, Richard H. Thaler and Frank Yu, AEA Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 108, May 2018
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