Life-cycle savings and public policy : a cross-national study of six countries /

The key to understanding household saving is obtaining appropriate data. Dealing with differences between rich and poor households, for example, or the old and the young, require observation of a large number of households. The focus of this study is to obtain data on many households from a number o...

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Other Authors: Börsch-Supan, Axel, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press, ©2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Saving : a cross-national perspective / Axel Börsch-Supan and Annamaria Lusardi
  • Household saving : concepts and measurement / Agar Brugiavini and Guglielmo Weber
  • Household saving in Germany / Axel Börsch-Supan, Anette Reil-Held and Reinhold Schnabel
  • Household saving behavior and pension policies in Italy / Agar Brugiavini and Mario Padula
  • Household savings and wealth distribution in Japan / Yukinobu Kitamura, Noriyuki Takayama, and Fumiko Arita
  • Savings and pensions in the Netherlands / Rob Alessie and Arie Kapteyn
  • Pensions and life-cycle savings profiles in the UK / James Banks and Susann Rohwedder
  • Household saving behavior and pension policies in the United States / Orazio P. Attanasio and Monica Paiella.