Life-cycle savings and public policy
Subtitle: a cross-national study of six countries
By: ed. by Axel Börsch-Supan
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Amsterdam [u.a.]
Language: eng
Format: [Elektronische Ressource] :
ISBN-13: 9780080508863
Description: 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 of different countries and to examine them in a coherent fashion. The hope is that through these observations we can learn about the ways policies affect savings and that other differences among savers can be controlled for, instead of being blamed on "cultural differences * Features a consistent framework among chapters * Reaches a harmony between measurement and analysis to compare accurately the resulting data and statistics * Provides econometric methodology to reveal the way policies affect savings.
Notes: Gesehen am 18.09.2008.
Table of contents: title: Saving : a cross-national perspective / Axel Börsch-Supan and Annamaria Lusardi; title: Household saving : concepts and measurement / Agar Brugiavini and Guglielmo Weber; title: Household saving in Germany / Axel Börsch-Supan, Anette Reil-Held and Reinhold Schnabel; title: Household saving behavior and pension policies in Italy / Agar Brugiavini and Mario Padula; title: Household savings and wealth distribution in Japan / Yukinobu Kitamura, Noriyuki Takayama, and Fumiko Arita; title: Savings and pensions in the Netherlands / Rob Alessie and Arie Kapteyn; title: Pensions and life-cycle savings profiles in the UK / James Banks and Susann Rohwedder; title: Household saving behavior and pension policies in the United States / Orazio P. Attanasio and Monica Paiella.