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Financial literacy and intra-household decision making : evidence from Rwanda
Grohmann, Antonia; Schoofs, Annekathrin - 2019
-household decision making? Using data on savings groups in Rwanda, we examine this relationship and show that women with higher financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012108638
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Do individuals accept fluctuations in pension income?
Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Knebel, Caroline; Weber, Martin - 2023 - This draft: March 21, 2023
How to invest and decumulate wealth during retirement has far-reaching consequences for consumption during retirement … investigate the choice between phased withdrawal plans with varying riskiness resulting in volatile retirement income. We find … that 40% of the participants choose some risk and thus, accept fluctuations in retirement income. Second, we analyze the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311911
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Effectiveness of early retirement disincentives : individual welfare, distributional and fiscal implications
Bönke, Timm; Kemptner, Daniel; Lüthen, Holger - 2016
effects of early retirement disincentives on retirement behavior, individual welfare, pensions and public budget. We employ … retirement model. We find that labor market participation and retirement behavior in general are strongly influenced by the level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440834
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Looking back in anger? : retirement and unemployment scarring
Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2014
identify non-employment-related scarring by examining the transition of unemployed people to retirement as a life event after …-monetary unemployment scarring for people who were unemployed for the first time in their life directly prior to retirement, but not for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348430
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The effect of pension wealth on employment
Becker, Sebastian; Buslei, Hermann; Geyer, Johannes; … - 2022
close to retirement. The age pattern is partly explained by the positive effect of pension wealth on disability pensions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014476768
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The effect of pension wealth on employment
Becker, Sebastian; Buslei, Hermann; Geyer, Johannes; … - 2023
close to retirement. The age pattern is partly explained by the positive effect of pension wealth on disability pensions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014088379
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Gender differences in willingness to compete : the role of public observability
Buser, Thomas; Ranehill, Eva; Veldhuizen, Roel van - 2017
A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do so in anonymous environments, real world competitions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011705210
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The gender gap in intergenerational mobility : evidence of educational persistence in Brazil
Leone, Tharcisio - 2017
This paper employs mobility matrices, univariate regressions and multivariate econometric techniques based on the recently published nationally representative household survey (PNAD-2014) from Brazil to investigate the relevance of the gendered patterns in the intergenerational transmission of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738646
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Committee deliberation and gender differences in influences
Radbruch, Jonas; Schiprowski, Amelie - 2023
This paper provides empirical evidence on the aggregation of information in committees. We analyze unique data from the decision-making process of hiring committees within a large private company. In the hiring process, committee members first conduct independent one-to-one interviews and give...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480222
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Working life and human capital investment : causal evidence from pension reform
Gohl, Niklas; Haan, Peter; Kurz, Elisabeth; Weinhardt, Felix - 2019
provide a novel empirical test of human capital theory. Using a sizable pension reform which shifts the retirement age between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139004