Retirement expectations, pension reforms, and their impact on private wealth accumulation

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 90, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2187-2212

  Bottazzi, Renata ^a,b   Jappelli, Tullio ^c,d   Padula, Mario ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^d CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Expectations; Pension reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749324486     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2006.03.005     Document Type: Article

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