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Unlike income or expenditure, there is no official individual or household survey collecting detailed information on saving and wealth holdings on an ongoing basis. This has limited the possible analysis of how saving responds to the incentives created by policy changes.
This report reviews the economics of household saving, the taxation of financial assets in the UK and official sources of information on saving and wealth. It also provides new information on trends in asset holding in the household population over the period 197896 and a detailed description of asset and wealth holdings in 199798.
Authors
CPP Co-Director
James is Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Economics at Manchester, working on broad issues in the economics of retirement, savings and health.
Tanner, Tanner
Report details
- DOI
- 10.1920/re.ifs.1999.0062
- ISBN
- 978-1-873357-93-4
- Publisher
- IFS
Suggested citation
Banks, J and Tanner, T. (1999). Household saving in the UK. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/household-saving-uk (accessed: 20 May 2024).
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