Population aging, changing retirement policies and lifetime earnings profiles in Japan

Population Aging, Intergenerational Transfers and the Macroeconomy

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 17-37

  Clark, Robert ^a   Ogawa, Naohiro ^b   Matsukura, Rikiya ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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