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Private wealth holdings are likely to become an increasingly important determinant in the job exit decision of elderly workers. Net wealth may correlate with worker's characteristics that also determine the exit out of a job. It is therefore important to include a rich set of observed...
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By requiring individuals to decide whether to participate in (newly established) pension funds, how much to contribute and how to invest their retirement wealth, pension reforms have raised concerns about the ability of households to deal with financial decisions. Using the Bank of Italy's...
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savings plan has been shown to boost wealth. Overall, financial literacy, both directly and indirectly, is found to have a …
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We present new evidence on financial literacy and retirement preparation in the Netherlands based on two surveys conducted before and after the onset of the financial crisis. We document that while financial knowledge did not increase from 2005 to 2010, significantly more individuals planned for...
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directly translate in additional retirement savings. We show that the annuity stream generated by conventional and … unconventional accounts from age 65 onwards is small and that most savings are residual and are not being put aside for a specific … motive. Also self-employed retirement savings are low, even though this group has generally no occupational pension …
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illiterate. Moreover, as expected, I found that financial literacy increases the probability of having a savings plan for …
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We study whether the retirement replacement rate influences households' saving behavior by using the RAND Health and Retirement Study data file. We estimate quantile regressions with the ratio of wealth to permanent income as dependent variable, and age dummies and the retirement replacement...
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There is a common perception that households are under-saving for retirement - indeed this has motivated many recent policy reforms in the UK. In this paper we use a structural model, specified to closely match the UK policy environment, to investigate this ‘fact' for the cohort born in the...
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We examine financial literacy in Germany using data from the SAVE survey. We find that knowledge of basic financial concepts is lacking among women, the less educated, and those living in East Germany. In particular, those with low education and low income in East Germany have little financial...
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