Growing Household Indebtedness and the Plummeting Saving Rate in Canada: An Explanatory Note

The Economic and Labour Relations Review

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 133-151

  Seccareccia, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

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EID: 84993740528     PISSN: 10353046     EISSN: 18382673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/103530460501600108     Document Type: Article

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