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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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the estimated displacement effect of pensions on private savings towards zero. …This paper investigates the relationship between household saving and pensions, and estimates both the displacement … effect of pensions on private saving and the precautionary saving effect due to uncertainty in pension income. I estimate the …
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the estimated displacement effect of pensions on private savings towards zero …This paper investigates the relationship between household saving and pensions, and estimates both the displacement … effect of pensions on private saving and the precautionary saving effect due to uncertainty in pension income. I estimate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979049
I study the relationship between household saving and pensions, and estimate both the displacement effect of pensions …, the consumption function depends on expected pension benefits and pension risk. I estimate the savings equation implied by …. Exploiting exogenous variation due to pension fund performance, I show that savings decrease significantly with expected pension …
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We review the evidence on decision making in complex choice situations—i.e., situations where there are many alternatives and/or where attributes of alternatives are difficult to understand. We focus on choices about health insurance, health care, and retirement planning, all of which are very...
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Public pay-as-you-go pensions still form the dominant pillar of old-age provision in Germany. This is in marked …
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Many countries in the developing world have implemented old-age pensions. Evidence of the impact of such policies on … of other household members and of household savings patterns as well as support for interventions aimed at improving the …
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The life-cycle hypothesis implies that consumption would not decline at retirement. However, several studies found relevant declines in food consumption after retirement for the United States. Others concluded that this contradiction of the life-cycle hypothesis is solved by allowing for broader...
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The life-cycle hypothesis implies that consumption would not decline at retirement. However, several studies found relevant declines in food consumption after retirement for the United States. Others concluded that this contradiction of the life-cycle hypothesis is solved by allowing for broader...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009559647
The life-cycle hypothesis implies that consumption would not decline at retirement. However, several studies found relevant declines in food consumption after retirement for the United States. Others concluded that this contradiction of the life-cycle hypothesis is solved by allowing for broader...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014167681