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The Saving Behaviour of Two Person Households: Evidence from Dutch Panel Data
Euwals, Rob; Börsch-Supan, Axel; Eymann, Angelika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233731
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262338
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A constitutional theory of the family
Cigno, Alessandro - 2005
effects of public pensions and credit rationing. These implications are not much affected by whether altruism is assumed or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267482
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Joint Labour Supply Dynamics of Older Couples
Michaud, Pierre-Carl - 2003
This paper studies the labour force participation dynamics of older couples in the United States. Longitudinal data from the five available waves of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is used to investigate if the dynamics introduced by considering both spouses? behavior provide additional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261564
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Retaining through training: Even for older workers
Picchio, Matteo; van Ours, Jan C. - 2011
This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual heterogeneity. We also take into account that there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278680
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Do Mandatory Pensions Decrease Household Savings? Evidence for the Netherlands
Euwals, Rob - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703163
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Stigma in Welfare Programs
Celhay, Pablo; Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - 2022
Stigma of welfare participation is important for policy and survey design, because it deters program take-up and increases misreporting. Stigma is also relevant to the literature on social image concerns, yet empirical evidence is scant because stigma is difficult to empirically identify. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351970
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Under-savers anonymous: Evidence on self-help groups and peer pressure as a savings commitment device
Kast, Felipe; Meier, Stephan; Pomeranz, Dina - 2012
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282613
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How general are time preferences? Eliciting good-specific discount rates
Ubfal, Diego - 2012
, good-specific discounting, under certain conditions, can explain the persistence of poverty and low savings by the poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287713
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Early retirement behaviour in the Netherlands: evidence from a policy reform
Euwals, Rob; van Vuuren, Daniel - 2006
In the early 1990s, the Dutch social partners agreed upon transforming the generous and actuarially unfair PAYG early retirement schemes into less generous and actuarially fair capital funded schemes. The starting dates of the transitional arrangements varied by industry sector. In this study,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277100