the effect of the reform on the savings and retirement expectations and realizations of two virtually identical male … of workers born in 1950 or later. At the same time, a tax-facilitated savings plan was introduced that implied a large … savings subsidy for all workers, irrespective of birth year. This paper uses linked administrative and survey data to assess …

This study explored the psychological mechanisms that underlie the retirement planning and saving tendencies of Dutch … analysis models to identify the mechanisms that underlie perceived financial preparedness for retirement. Findings revealed … psychological and retirement planning constructs, but also in the robustness of the path models. These findings suggest that policy …

important to include a rich set of observed characteristics in an empirical model for retirement in order to measure the …

increasingly important factor in the retirement decision. Therefore it is relevant to know whether workers with a different … the Netherlands in the period 1995 through 2001, we analyse the impact of wealth, savings, and debt position on job exit …

Pensions may be provided for in a modern society by several methods, viz., voluntary individual savings, mandatory … individual savings, that the fully funded occupational system is decided upon by the age cohort of the median worker and that … decisions is a Pareto-equilibrium. Nowadays most of capital supply stems from individual and institutionalised pension savings …

This study exploits a new dataset in order to quantify the effect of financial incentives on retirement choices. This … Wise (2004), we find that financial incentives have an effect on retirement. The effect goes in the expected direction … their retirement probability increases in a sizable way. We also find that the procedure to impute seniority used in …

incentives matter for the retirement behavior of the self-employed. We also provide evidence of the self-employed not wanting to … retire as early as possible, and contrast these expectation data with realized retirement transitions. The overall picture …