| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
| Ageing and globalisation in the Scandinavian welfare model | | Author(s) | Torben M Andersen |
| Corporate Author | Oxford Institute of Ageing |
| Journal title | Ageing Horizons, 2006, no 4, Spring/Summer 2006 |
| Publisher | Oxford Institute of Ageing, Oxford, Spring/Summer 2006 |
| Pages | pp 6-11 |
| Source | Download only from: http:/www.ageing.ox.ac.uk/ageinghorizons |
| Keywords | Social welfare ; Migration ; Taxation ; Denmark ; Norway ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | The Scandinavian welfare model implies an extended social contract across generations. Therefore, it is sensitive to increases in the dependency ratio. Current welfare arrangements are not fiscally sustainable, that is, expenditures to maintain current welfare arrangements will slowly but steadily increase alongside the increase in the dependency ratio. While the demographic shifts in Denmark, Norway and Sweden are not worse than in many other countries, the consequences and possible remedies must be seen in the perspective of the wider regime adopted. This paper describes these problems and the possibilities of finding solutions against a process of globalisation affecting migration patterns and taxation. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060809203 A |
| Classmark | TY: TN: WS: 76K: 76N: 76P |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|