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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 …
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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/10012786283
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 …
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How much retirement income is needed in order to maintain one's living standard at old age? As it is difficult to find a firm basis for an empirical treatment of this question, we employ a novel approach to assessing an adequate replacement rate vis- a-vis income in the pre-retirement period. We...
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We address the question of whether the heterogeneity in savings is partly due to differences in pension wealth across … heterogeneity in the mean savings offset depending on age, risk attitudes and country. Third, the offset follows different patterns …
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pensions and on a particular type of unfunded (PAYG) pension. Surprisingly little is known about the optimal split between … state the importance of PAYG pensions differs. We estimate how the optimal level of unfunded, state pensions depends on rate …
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Many theories and public discussions about pension systems and their reforms are based on the assumption that individual age is a major factor in determining individual preferences for or against public pension schemes. The aim of this paper is to explore whether different age groups do indeed...
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Nudges toward voluntary defined-contribution retirement savings have moved many non-savers into savings but have left … on evidence from the United States and other countries to advocate a retirement savings solution centered on a … paternalistic second layer of mandatory private defined-contribution savings accounts in a retirement savings pyramid, above the …
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