-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 …

-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 …

-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 …

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 … suggests that those who have access to this type of savings should participate inthem, provided they have some financial wealth …

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 …

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 …

to evaluate the adequacy of retirement savings. We find first that the specification of the model's asset structure … higher‐return tax‐advantaged private pensions and in housing. Second, we find that only the most patient households achieve …

Traditionally, households have been seen as acting as a single unit when it comes to savings. Although this might be … correct for some parts of household savings, we question the correctness of the unitary model with respect to non …-mandatory retirement savings. Therefore we analyze the intra-household allocation of retirement savings between partners in Germany taking …