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Do the Russians Really Save that Much? - Alternate Estimates from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey
Paul R. Gregory
Manouchehr Mokhtari
Wolfram Schrettl
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SSRN
, 2000
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=aGjizwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
We use a new independent survey of 4,000 Russian households (the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey or RLMS) to study their saving behavior. The RLMS household saving rate (12%) is less than half the official figure (29%). Despite the massive changes of the transition, the Russian household saving rate of 1994 cannot be shown to be different from that of 1976. The patterns of Russian household saving differ from international experience: Its paradoxical U-shaped saving-age relationship may be explained by the dramatic deterioration of life expectancies of middle-aged Russians.