Pensions may be provided for in a modern society by a mix of several methods, namely by voluntary individual savings … workers decide on their own individual savings, that the fully-funded occupational system is decided upon by the age cohort of … pension savings are the only sources of capital supply. When capital supply equals demand from industry there is equilibrium …

How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system … these letters on the behavior of individuals. We find an increase in tax-deductible private retirement savings and provide … evidence that this is not due to a crowding-out of other forms of savings. We also show that labor earnings, i.e. the most …

Within a politico-economic model we first establish three hypotheses: (i) Retirees generally prefer a higher retirement … age than workers, whereby just retired individuals prefer the highest retirement age, (ii) in equilibrium the level of the … legal retirement age is increasing in longevity and (iii) decreasing in the public pension replacement rate. We then test …

were interviewed to assess their knowledge about pensions and financial issues and about their own savings and personal … wealth planned for retirement. The responses showed that their knowledge and awareness of retirement planning was limited. We … follow-up survey shows that these women became more interested and aware of pension schemes and retirement options after …

In this paper, we consider how the hours of work and retirement age ought to respond to a change in the uncertainty of … individuals' labor supply and retirement-decisions, the results show that a decrease in the standard deviation of life …-length leads to an increase in the optimal retirement age and a decrease in the hours of work per period spent working. This result …

during retirement. However, there is no consensus on the answer to the underlying question about what this standard should be … Netherlands. Key findings include the following. Adequate levels of retirement spending exceed 80 percent of working life spending … ; retirement saving ; cross-country survey studies …