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 …

, 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. …

The paper describes and evaluates unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) - a relatively new and not well … management of short and long term savings (i.e., pension wealth) while avoiding unnecessary administrative costs. The paper …

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. …

-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 …

international wage differentials and preferences for origin. We use a model of job search, savings and migration to show that job …

-migrant. Although migrants lose their original social networks whilst overseas, savings and human capital accumulation acquired abroad …

situation can be closely monitored, but that it might be a very important complement when savings inhibit observing financial …

increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer … first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are very potent at increasing savings. In contrast, a more classical … tool to encourage savings. …