Cross-national comparison of income and wealth status in retirementFirst results from the Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS)

Cross-national comparison of income and wealth status in retirement

First results from the Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS)

Sierminska

Eva

Sierminska, Eva

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Brandolini

Andrea

Brandolini, Andrea

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Smeeding

Timothy M.

Smeeding, Timothy M.

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Chestnut Hill, Mass. Center for Retirement Research at Boston College20072007monographic

Chestnut Hill, Mass.

Center for Retirement Research at Boston College

2007

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This paper provides a first glance at the role of income and wealth in comparing economic security of older persons in the United States in cross-national perspective. We compare our elders to those in six other rich OECD countries (Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and the United Kingdom). These countries have diverse social policy systems, with respect to both social insurance and public assistance; and they have very different patterns of private wealth holding. The paper is based on a new source of wealth micro data, known as the Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS)...

Eva Sierminska, Andrea Brandolini, and Timothy M. Smeeding.

CRR WP2007-3

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