A U. S. -Japan comparison of the importance and determinants of retirement saving

DOI10.1016/S0165-1765(99)00166-4MaRDI QIDQ1606388zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Charles Yuji Horioka, Megumi Okui

Publication date 1 September 2002

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0165-1765(99)00166-4

zbMATH Keywords

householdmicro dataretirement saving

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Macroeconomic theory (monetary models, models of taxation) (91B64)

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