The Adequacy of Retirement Savings: Subjective Survey Reports by Retired Canadians

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The Adequacy of Retirement Savings: Subjective Survey Reports by Retired Canadians

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Sule Alan
Kadir Atalay
Thomas F. Crossley

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We examine retired Canadians’ subjective survey reports of satisfaction with finances,and with life, relative to the period before retirement.

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Paper provided by McMaster University in its series Social and Economic Dimensions of an Aging Population Research Papers with number 199.

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- Sule Alan & Kadir Atalay & Thomas F. Crossley, 2008. "The Adequacy of Retirement Savings: Subjective Survey Reports by Retired Canadians," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 34(s1), pages 95-118, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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- Sule Alan & Kadir Atalay & Thomas F. Crossley, 2007. "The Adequacy of Retirement Savings: Subjective Survey Reports by Retired Canadians," Quantitative Studies in Economics and Population Research Reports 418, McMaster University. [Downloadable!]

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D91 - Microeconomics - - Intertemporal Choice and Growth - - - Intertemporal Consumer Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving
I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - General Welfare

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