retirement along with the implications for saving. Importantly, the model incorporates a government budget constraint involving a … pay-as-you-go universal pension. In addition, the model allows for a compulsory private retirement savings scheme …

Increasing life expectancies and uncertainty about future retirement incomes are likely to lead to various changes in … paper uses a new source of longitudinal data on the health, labour force participation and retirement decisions of older New …

KiwiSaver is a voluntary savings scheme aimed at increasing the retirement wealth of a target population. A critical … retirement income would not be sufficient to meet basic living costs. Critically, regression analysis finds no relationship … between KiwiSaver membership and any shortfall or excess in respondents' expected retirement income relative to either the …

Retirement conducted by researchers at Massey University. The study employs a range of measures of health including the results …, arguably masking the effect of privately held forms of retirement wealth. The paper reports associations between health, wealth … and retirement which do not necessarily constitute evidence of causality. …

level, the same question arises in relation to the saving for retirement: are New Zealanders adequately preparing for … retirement? This paper addresses the second of these questions. It develops a model of retirement wealth accumulation based on … may not be widespread undersaving for retirement. The results are consistent with overseas findings. We have chosen …

significant element of retirement accumulation for many New Zealanders. The Treasury maintains a programme of work related to … housing, saving, wealth accumulation and retirement. The results of this contribute to Treasury's role in providing advice to … would be needed to smooth consumption between pre- and post-retirement. Finally it explores the effect of some home equity …

higher level of accumulation for retirement? The paper presents a range of information about the participation and level of … heightened awareness of the importance of retirement saving and saves additional amounts in other vehicles. An alternative … of workplace superannuation are associated with greater total retirement wealth may well have arisen from an "awareness …

expected retirement period. Thus, it is argued that when women have greater relative bargaining power, households will … retirement. The results suggest that in this setting it may be rational for women with greater bargaining power to favour greater …