Assessing the maintenance of savings sufficiency over the first decade of retirement

International Tax and Public Finance

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 481-502

  Haveman, Robert ^a   Holden, Karen ^a   Romanov, Andrei ^a   Wolfe, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Pensions; Poverty; Retirement; Savings; Social security; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547263555     PISSN: 09275940     EISSN: 15736970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10797-007-9027-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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