Precautionary saving and subjective earnings variance

Economics Letters

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 319-326

  Lusardi, Annamaria ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Job security; Precautionary saving; Risk; Wealth accumulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031578595     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(97)00239-5     Document Type: Article

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