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Retirement: evolution and macro-economic implications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson*
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London School of Economics, London, UK
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Paul Johnson, Lecturer in Social History, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK.
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Social and psychological gerontology
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Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , May 1994, pp. 161 - 167
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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