The market crash and mass layoffs: How the current economic crisis may affect retirement

B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Coile, Courtney C ^a   Levine, Phillip B ^a  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

housing market; layoffs; retirement; stock market crash; unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955651001     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19351682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1935-1682.2568     Document Type: Article

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