income. The goal of this paper is to test for the effect of mandatory pensions on discretionary household savings. The data … are drawn from the CentER Savings Survey, which consists of a representative and a highest-income-decile sample of Dutch … households. The survey contains rich information on house-hold wealth, pension rights and savings attitudes. A result of the …

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 …

lifecycle labor supply and savings decisions; and that this in turn risks invalidating current reform approaches of a closer …

were interviewed to assess their knowledge about pensions and financial issues and about their own savings and personal …

age for women born after 1951 in Germany, we show evidence of a reduction in private savings rate and an increase in …

relationship between the gender gap in financial literacy and the gender gap in pension savings amongst non-retired adults aged 18 … where the focus is on pension savings and a more structural specification where the focus is on the "pension return" (the … ratio of pension savings to cumulative earnings). Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition analysis suggests that around 8.5 per cent of …

' retirement-savings decisions. In both conditions, the calculator projects workers' retirement income goal. In the treatment … condition, it also projects retirement income based on defined-contribution savings, prominently displays the gap between …

more light on the relationship between public and private savings by analyzing private pension scheme participation in the … an increase in, or crowding in of, private savings. -- Ageing ; savings behavior ; social security ; subjective …

, necessary beyond 2025. As the enacted savings rate target is conservative, individual pensions keep retirement income sufficient … even if returns to pension funds are low due to legal restrictions on savings vehicles. …