Retirement incentives and labor supply

Richard Blundell; Eric French; Gemma Tetlow

Retirement incentives and labor supply

Richard Blundell, Eric French and Gemma Tetlow

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17 Mar 2017

‘Retirement Incentives and Labor Supply’ in A. Woodland and J. Piggott (eds) Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, Chapter 1, Vol 1B, Elsevier.

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