criterion to rank them but that the retirement motive is the most important saving motive of European households if the … importance of each saving motive, with saving for the retirement motive being less important in countries with generous public … findings suggest that the retirement motive and the precautionary motive are the dominant motives for saving in Europe partly …

incentives matter for the retirement behavior of the self-employed. We also provide evidence of the self-employed not wanting to … retire as early as possible, and contrast these expectation data with realized retirement transitions. The overall picture …