At present, some 16m Japanese are in their 20s, many of them children of baby-boomer parents.
Meanwhile the baby-boomer generation has emerged into adulthood, boosting the share of working-age people.
Rising costs, especially Social Security commitments as the baby-boomer generations retire, will require structural fiscal reform, though.
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One of the greatest challenges facing our country is the coming retirement of more than 1 million baby-boomer teachers.
ING, a Dutch bank, says there is more liquidity in the economy, as baby-boomer entrepreneurs are reaching retirement and selling their family businesses.
Limiting government spending, and keeping the budget on a firm financial footing, is crucial as we approach the retirement years of the baby-boomer generation.
According to surveys, the typical baby-boomer would like to save about 15% of his income, but actually squirrels away less than a third as much.
Centrist politics, charm, even a fondness for new-age jargon: it is hardly surprising that Ms Granholm is being compared to a certain recently retired baby-boomer.
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Conservative peer Lord Wei, who at 35 is the youngest member of the House of Lords, says he wants members of the baby-boomer generation involved.
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But all three of these panelists agreed that when the turn occurs, it is likely to be abrupt, leaving vast numbers of baby-boomer bond investors exposed.
Haute couture began a slow decline in the 1950s, accelerated by the baby-boomer youthquake, the radical change in lifestyle that followed and the rise of designer ready-to-wear.
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That underscores a third point: Dividends are baby-boomer magnets.
Add to that larger cultural trends--especially the baby-boomer obsession with and fairly broad knowledge of health issues--and the kids began to rebel against the old ways, demanding, with their buying power, more of a participatory role in their spa experiences.
Keaton wasn't supposed to garner so much attention on the show, which also starred Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross as Keaton's liberal, ex-hippie, baby boomer parents.
The always reliable (and deep-pocketed) baby boomer market is gobbling up reunion tour tickets for classic 1970s and '80s bands like The Police, Genesis and Rush.
A.s living a baby boomer's fantasy--and a taxpayer's nightmare.
For her part, Adams is confident that Millennial women will be able to surmount the work-life tensions that plague their Baby Boomer predecessors when it comes to structuring their own careers in a way that reflects their priorities and pushing for changes in the workplace to accommodate their values.
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The study, A Post-Crisis Assessment of Retirement Income Adequacy for Baby Boomer and Gen Xers, is available here.
Jerry Shereshewsky, the self-described "chief grown-up" at the firm GrownUpMarketing, is a baby boomer.
Many of these jobs are health-care and engineering support positions, driven by the aging baby boomer population and the increasing automation of technology and manufacturing machinery.
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