The impact of pension schemes on saving in Israel

Applied Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 761-774

  Lavi, Yaacov ^a   Spivak, Avia ^b  

^a The Bank of Israel   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENSION SYSTEM; SAVINGS BEHAVIOR;

ISRAEL;

EID: 0032791297     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000368499323977     Document Type: Article

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