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Private Wealth and Job Exit at Older Age : A Random Effects Model
Bloemen, Hans - 2014
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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Financial Literacy and Pension Plan Participation in Italy
Fornero, Elsa - 2011
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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Financial Literacy, Retirement Planning, and Household Wealth
van Rooij, Maarten - 2011
savings plan has been shown to boost wealth. Overall, financial literacy, both directly and indirectly, is found to have a …
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Financial Literacy, Retirement Preparation and Pension Expectations in the Netherlands
Alessie, Rob J. M. - 2011
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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Did You Really Save so Little for Your Retirement? An Analysis of Retirement Savings and Unconventional Retirement Accounts
Mastrogiacomo, Mauro - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117290
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Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning in Japan
Sekita, Shizuka - 2013
illiterate. Moreover, as expected, I found that financial literacy increases the probability of having a savings plan for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093587
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Retirement Replacement Rates and Saving Behavior
Zandberg, Eelco - 2014
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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Have Households Under-Saved for Retirement?
Crawford, Rowena - 2016
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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Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning in Germany
Bucher-Koenen, Tabea - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127002
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Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning in New Zealand
Crossan, Diana - 2011
based mainly in the South Island of New Zealand who have initiated a long-term savings scheme and are also providing …
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