Introducing age into national accounts

Population Aging and the Generational Economy: A Global Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 55-78

  Mason, Andrew ^a,b   Lee, Ronald ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b EAST WEST CENTER   (United States)

^c Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging   (United States)

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