A U.S.-Japan Comparison of the Importance and Determinants of Retirement Saving

Charles Yuji Horioka () and M. Okui

Working Papers from Osaka - Institute of Social and Economic Research

Abstract: In this paper, we conduct a U.S.- Japan comparison of the importance of retirement saving and of the determinants thereof using micro data from the "U.S.- Japan Comparison Survey of Saving," a binational household survey conducted in 1996 by the Institute for Posts and Telecommunications Policy of the Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.

Keywords: SAVINGS; SOCIAL SECURITY; LIFE CYCLE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 D91 E21 H55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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