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The saving behaviour of two person households : evidence from Dutch panel data

Euwals, Rob; Börsch-Supan, Axel; Eymann, Angelika - 2000

-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 …

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The saving behaviour of two person households : evidence from Dutch panel data

Euwals, Rob; Börsch-Supan, Axel; Eymann, Angelika - 2000

-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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001605154

Do mandatory pensions decrease household savings? : evidence for the Netherlands

Euwals, Rob - 2000

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 …

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Maintaining one's living standard at old age : what does that mean? ; evidence using panel data from Germany

Dudel, Christian; Ott, Notburga; Werding, Martin - 2013

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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Aging, taxes and pensions in Switzerland

Keuschnigg, Christian - 2016

until 2050. To quantify the effects on pensions, taxes and social contributions, we use an overlapping generations model …

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Pensions and household savings : cross-country heterogeneity in Europe

D'Addio, Anna Cristina; Roger, Muriel; Savignac, … - 2020

We address the question of whether the heterogeneity in savings is partly due to differences in pension wealth across … heterogeneity in the mean savings offset depending on age, risk attitudes and country. Third, the offset follows different patterns …

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Funded and unfunded pension schemes : risk, return and welfare

Miles, David - 2000

pensions and on a particular type of unfunded (PAYG) pension. Surprisingly little is known about the optimal split between … state the importance of PAYG pensions differs. We estimate how the optimal level of unfunded, state pensions depends on rate …

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Do mandatory pensions decrease household savings? : Evidence for the Netherlands

Euwals, Rob - 2000

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Actual and perceived financial sophistication and wealth accumulation : the role of education and gender

Bannier, Christina E.; Neubert, Milena - 2016

This study examines the role of actual and perceived financial sophistication (i.e., financial literacy and confidence) for individuals' wealth accumulation. Using survey data from the German SAVE initiative, we find strong gender- and education-related differences in the distribution of the two...

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Gender and the effect of working hours on firm-sponsored training

Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2015

Using employees' longitudinal data, we study the effect of working hours on the propensity of firms to sponsor training of their employees. We show that, whereas male part-time workers are less likely to receive training than male full-timers, part-time working women are as likely to receive...

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