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liquidity constraints less often buyESSPs and, if they buy them, more often use them as a substitute for other savings. Regular …Since the early nineties, the Dutch tax system allows for a tax-favored form of risk free savings through employer …-sponsored savings plans (ESSPs). Under some conditions and up to a certain amount, the contributions to this planare tax-deductible, and …
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savings plan has been shown to boost wealth. Overall, financial literacy, both directly and indirectly, is found to have a … strong link to household wealth. -- Financial Education ; Savings and Wealth Accumulation ; Retirement Preparation …
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The paper deals with the effects of cohabitation of grown children with their parents on household saving, using data from Italy and the Netherlands. It presents a two-period game theoretical model where the child has to decide whether to move out of the parental home. This decision is affected...
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liquidity constraints less often buyESSPs and, if they buy them, more often use them as a substitute for other savings. Regular …Since the early nineties, the Dutch tax system allows for a tax-favored form of risk free savings through employer …-sponsored savings plans (ESSPs). Under some conditions and up to a certain amount, the contributions to this planare tax-deductible, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257210
savings plan has been shown to boost wealth. Overall, financial literacy, both directly and indirectly, is found to have a …
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in real estate. In countries where retirement savings are not mandatory for self-employed, representatives of this group … often report this as an argument against making retirement savings compulsory. Our study shows that self-employed retirement … savings are low and below individually pre-stated saving intentions, even though this group has generally no occupational …
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This paper investigates what motivates intergenerational time and money transfers. We consider a model in which transfers may be driven not only by altruism, but also by exchange considerations. We use data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to discriminate...
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The purpose of this research is to estimate equivalence scales and evaluate their price and utility dependencies. To do this we unify two strands of the empirical literature on this topic, one that relies on demand data and one that relies on subjective evaluations of wellbeing. This way we are...
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. Precautionary savings account for about 30% of wealth accumulation. However we also claim that obtaining converging results does not … necessarily answer the question on the empirical relevance of precautionary savings, as the amounts being saved largely differ …
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We estimate a collective household model with survey data on financial satisfaction from the European Community Household Panel. Our estimates suggest that cohabitating individuals enjoy returns to scale in consumption that are towards the larger end of the range of estimates reported in the...
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