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The Saving Behaviour of Two Person Households: Evidence from Dutch Panel Data

Euwals, Rob; Börsch-Supan, Axel; Eymann, Angelika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

-person households (e.g. with a husband and a wife) from the Dutch CentER Savings Survey, we find that wives find saving for old age more …

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Do Mandatory Pensions Decrease Household Savings? Evidence for the Netherlands

Euwals, Rob - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

income. The goal of this paper is to test for the effect of mandatory pensions on discretionary household savings. The data … pensions have a significant negative impact on savings motives with respect to old age. Concerning the effect on household … are drawn from the CentER Savings Survey, which consists of a representative and a highest-income-decile sample of Dutch …

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Retaining through Training: Even for Older Workers

Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual heterogeneity. We also take into account that there...

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Shifting Perspectives in Pensions

Góra, Marek; Palmer, Edward - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper addresses the questions of what is an economically efficient pension system, what are the externalities and what are the risks of the four alternative pension systems: financial defined contribution (FDC), notional or non-financial defined contribution (NDC), financial defined benefit...

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Pension Plan Characteristics and Framing Effects in Employee Savings Behavior

Card, David E.; Ransom, Michael R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In this paper we document the importance of framing effects in the retirement savings decisions of college professors …. Pensions in many post-secondary institutions are funded by a combination of an employer contribution and a mandatory employee … contribution. Employees can also make tax-deferred contributions to a supplemental savings account. A standard lifecycle savings …

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Profitability of Pension Contributions: Evidence from Real-Life Employment Biographies

Schröder, Carsten - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

partner. Due to survivor pensions, married insurants benefit from higher IRR as compared to the non-married. Interestingly …

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Maintaining One's Living Standard at Old Age - What Does That Mean?: Evidence Using Panel Data from Germany

Dudel, Christian; Ott, Notburga; Werding, Martin - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

How much retirement income is needed in order to maintain one's living standard at old age? As it is difficult to find a firm basis for an empirical treatment of this question, we employ a novel approach to assessing an adequate replacement rate vis- a-vis income in the pre-retirement period. We...

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A Constitutional Theory of the Family

Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

effects of public pensions and credit rationing. These implications are not much affected by whether altruism is assumed or …

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The Contribution of Vocational Training to Employment, Job-Related Skills and Productivity: Evidence from Madeira Island

Budria, Santiago; Pereira, Pedro T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In this paper, we analyze the transition to the labour market of participants in vocational training in Madeira Island. In a first stage, we investigate how the employment status at different dates (one month, one year, and two years after the completion of the training program) depends on...

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The Impact of Globalization and Technology Transfer on Manufacturing Employment and Skills in Ethiopia

Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied technological transfer. Using a sample of 1,940 enterprises...

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