The Baby Bust

Who Will Do the Work? Who Will Pay the Taxes?
Herausgeber: Harris, Fred R

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing in large part on the United States, this book includes data from Europe and Japan and makes some important comparisons between the three regions. This book of essays by demographic, economic, and political science experts examines the global birth dearth and looks at its causes, implications, and policy options.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9780742538559
• ISBN-10: 0742538559
• Artikelnr.: 22436711

Autorenporträt

Fred R. Harris is professor of political science at the University of New Mexico.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction
Part 3 I The Global Baby Bust
Chapter 4 Japan's Baby Bust: Causes, Implications, and Policy Responses
Chapter 5 Low Fertility in Europe: Causes, Implications, and Policy Options
Part 6 II The United States and the Baby Bust
Chapter 7 The U.S. Baby Bust in Historical Perspective
Chapter 8 Combating Child Poverty and Enhancing the Soundness of Social
Security
Chapter 9 Latino Immigrants, National Identity, and the National Interest
Chapter 10 Ending America's Waste of Its Most Precious Resource-Its People