Pension Funding and Saving

B. Douglas Bernheim & John B. Shoven
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Copyright 1988
ISBN 0226062856
Pensions in the U.S. Economy
Book: Pensions in the U.S. Economy
Book editors: Zvi Bodie, John B. Shoven & David A. Wise
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
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  • B. Douglas Bernheim and John B. Shoven, Pensions in the U.S. Economy (University of Chicago Press, 1988), chap. 3, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/pensions-us-economy/pension-funding-and-saving.

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