This paper examines the generational aspect of the current Medicare system and some stylized reforms. We find that the rates of return on Medicare for today’s workers are higher than those for Social Security and that the Medicare system is shifting a greater share of the burden on future workers than is Social Security. Nonetheless, the rates of return on Medicare, using the Medicare Trustees ...

Using a nationally representative, longitudinal sample of Asian American late adolescents/young adults (ages 18-26), this article investigates the link between peer effects, school climate, on the one hand, and substance use, which includes tobacco, alcohol, and other illicit mood altering substance. The sample (N = 1585) is drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Waves...

This paper shows how changes in generational accounts relate to the gen­ erational incidence of fiscal policy. To illustrate the relationship, it uses the Auerbach-KotlikofF Dynamic Life-Cycle Simulation Model to compare policyinduced changes in generational accounts with actual changes in generations' Utilities. The paper considers a wide ränge of policies in closed and small open economies as...

Fiscal Policy and Educational Attainment in the United States A Generational Accounting Perspective In this paper, we investigate the consequences of the rise in educational attainment on the US generational accounts. We build on the 1995 accounts of Gokhale et al. (1999) and disaggregate them per schooling level. We show that low skill newborns are characterized by a negative generational acco...

religion, as a social phenomenon, affects society and is affected by it interactively. in iran, basically with religious norms and laws, many scholars and researchers concern with religion and level of religiosity. the paper is a comparative analysis of level of religiosity based on glynn and stark’s dimensions of religiosity, in three different generations in sari city: first generation (pre-r...

Abstract Over the past 20 years, there has been considerable expansion, particularly spirituality theory in workplace. Simultaneously, a growth of research, most especially practitioner publication into generational differences. The study's context is human resource (HR) policy and procedures Through this prism, perspectives religious are compared scrutinised within United Kingdom. Two major gr...

BACKGROUND Evidence is inconsistent as to whether or not there are health inequalities in adolescence according to socio-economic position (SEP) and whether or when they emerge in early adulthood. Despite the large health inequalities literature, few studies have simultaneously compared the relative importance of 'health selection' versus 'social causation' at this life-stage. This study follow...

GENERATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN EVALUATION AND EXPRESSION OFLEADERSHIP STYLEby

The uses and impacts of information and communications technologies (ICTs), are not smooth, linear or fairy-tale like in dusting society with benefits. In development, adoption, uses and impacts, technologies shape, and are shaped by, social relations and social structures. Generational relations and structures are part of the socio-cultural processes by which ICTs become products, symbols, soc...

Generations, and generational categories, offer a means of organising our understandings of age and age-related issues. Particularly within practitioner-orientated debates, differences between generations are highlighted as creating tensions which organisations must address. In contrast, we offer a critical interrogation of generations and unpack the implications of particular constructions. Sp...