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Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison

Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison

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Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison

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Full title

Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison

Publisher

United States: American Economic Association

Journal title

The American economic review, 2015-05, Vol.105 (5), p.420-425

Language

English

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United States: American Economic Association

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Contents

We compare the liquidity that six developed countries have built into their employer-based defined contribution (DC) retirement schemes. In Germany, Singapore, and the UK, withdrawals are essentially banned no matter what kind of transitory income shock the household realizes. By contrast, in Canada and Australia, liquidity is state-contingent. For...

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Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison

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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_4504682

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_4504682

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ISSN

0002-8282

E-ISSN

1944-7981

DOI

10.1257/aer.p20151004

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