A U.S.-Japan comparison of the importance and determinants of retirement saving

Economics Letters

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 365-371

  Horioka, Charles Yuji ^a,b,c   Okui, Megumi ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Life cycle model; Retirement; Saving; Social security; Wealth target

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033235674     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(99)00166-4     Document Type: Article

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