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Bridging the Gap in Pension Participation: How Much Can Universal Tax-Deferred Pension Coverage Hope to Achieve?
Karamcheva, Nadia; Sanzenbacher, Geoffrey - 2013
-plan availability to estimate the determinants of participation in a standard selection on unobservables model. We find that currently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319447
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The persistence of employee 401(k) contributions over a major stock market cycle: Evidence on the limited power of inertia on savings behavior
Muller, Lesli A.; Turner, John A. - 2011
Many middle-income workers save for retirement through 401(k) plans. This study addresses the concern that low account balances of older workers may indicate that these vehicles are not sufficient to insure adequate retirement savings. In particular, the study shows that workers are not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288022
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Voluntary Job Separations and Traditional versus Flexible Workplace Saving Plans: Evidence from Canada
Fang, Tony; Messacar, Derek - 2019
This paper provides new insights into the longstanding empirical issue of whether the type of workplace saving plan (a "traditional" registered pension plan or RPP, a "flexible" group registered retirement savings plan or group RRSP, and a "hybrid" arrangement of the two) affects employee...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005963
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Institutions and labor market outcomes in the Netherlands
Gautier, Pieter A.; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2009
force participation is high and the unemployment rate is low (also for young workers). Among the unemployed there are …, however, relatively many long-term unemployed workers. Labor force participation of older workers is in-creasing but still low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273960
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Generational accounting, solidarity and pension losses
Teulings, Coen N.; de Vries, Casper G. - 2003
The creeping stock market collapse eroded the wealth of funded pension systems. This led to political tensions between generations due to the fuzzy definition of property rights on the pension funds wealth. We argue that this problem can best be resolved by the introduction of generational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261654
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Private pensions, retirement wealth and lifetime earnings
MacGee, James; Zhou, Jie - 2010
This paper investigates the effect of private pensions on the retirement wealth distribution. The model incorporates stochastic private pension coverage into a lifecycle model with stochastic earnings. The predictions of the calibrated model are compared to the distribution of retirement net...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291899
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The effect of automatic enrolment on employees working for small employers
Cribb, Jonathan; Emmerson, Carl - 2019
workplace pension participation among those working for small employers by around 45 percentage points to reach 70% of targeted … leaves pension participation substantially below the very high levels (around 90%) seen under automatic enrolment among the … largest employers in the United Kingdom and the United States. We find evidence that this lower participation rate is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028691
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Generational Accounting, Solidarity and Pension Losses
Teulings, Coen N.; de Vries, Casper G. - 2003
The stock market collapse led to political tensions between generations due to the fuzzy definition of the property rights over the pension funds’ wealth. The problem is best resolved by the introduction of generational accounts. Modern consumption and portfolio theory shows that the younger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324730
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What happens when employers are obliged to nudge? Automatic enrolment and pension saving in the UK
Cribb, Jonathan; Emmerson, Carl - 2016
automatic enrolment, participation in workplace pensions among eligible private sector workers is estimated to have increased by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786833
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Public and private pension systems and macroeconomic volatility in OECD countries
Holzner, Mario; Jestl, Stefan; Pichler, David - 2019
This paper analyses the impact of public pension expenditures and pension funds' assets as well as their benefits on economic volatility. To do so, we use panel data for 35 OECD countries for the period 1980-2018 and apply a set of state-of-the-art econometric estimators. Our results show weak...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262784