Population ageing and tax reform in a dual welfare state

Economic and Labour Relations Review

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 45-64

  Spies Butcher, Ben ^a   Stebbing, Adam ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Health insurance; housing subsidies; pensions; private saving; retirement incomes; retirement policy; social inequality; superannuation; welfare state

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879410470     PISSN: 10353046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/103530461102200304     Document Type: Conference Paper

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