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The saving behaviour of two person households : evidence from Dutch panel data

Euwals, Rob; Börsch-Supan, Axel; Eymann, Angelika - 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 - 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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Will it last? : An assessment of the 2001 German pension reform

Bonin, Holger - 2001

, necessary beyond 2025. As the enacted savings rate target is conservative, individual pensions keep retirement income sufficient …In May 2001, Germany adopted a fundamental pension reform cutting back public pensions and introducing personal pension … moderate economic conditions. However, the new private pension plans provide scope for further downsizing state pensions …

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Gender wage differentials in a competitive labor market : the household interaction effect

Francois, Patrick; Ours, Jan C. van - 2000

We present a theoretical explanation of the gender wage gap which turns on the interaction between men and women in households. In equilibria where men are over-represented in fulltime work, we show that firms rationally choose to hire women only at strictly lower wages than men. The model...

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Assessing welfare accounts

Fölster, Stefan; Gidehag, Robert; Orszag, Jonathan Michael - 2002

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Household saving and full consumption over the life cycle

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2001

This paper extends the standard model of life cycle consumption, saving and labor supply in a number of directions. First, it argues that consumption should be defined as expenditure on household production as well as on market goods, that is, we are interested in life cycle profiles of full...