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Distributional effects of subsidizing retirement savings accounts : evidence from Germany

Corneo, Giacomo; Schröder, Carsten; König, Johannes - 2015

We empirically investigate the distributional consequences of the Riester scheme, the main private pension subsidization program in Germany. We find that 38% of the aggregate subsidy accrues to the top two deciles of the population, but only 7.3% to the bottom two. Nonetheless the Riester scheme...

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Private retirement savings and mandatory annuitization

Fehr, Hans; Habermann, Christian - In: International tax and public finance 17 (2010) 6, pp. 640-661

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Do retirement savings increase in response to information about retirement and expected pensions?

Dolls, Mathias; Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2018

How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system … these letters on the behavior of individuals. We find an increase in tax-deductible private retirement savings and provide … evidence that this is not due to a crowding-out of other forms of savings. We also show that labor earnings, i.e. the most …

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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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Subsidized Private Pension Savings and the Deferred Taxation of Retirement Income : Is the German Riester Scheme Self-Financing?

Bollacke, Steffen - 2018

Closing the gap between pre-retirement income and retirement income without increasing mandatory social security contributions for the working population has become a policy issue for many countries in the last couple of years. In order to incentivize people to save privately for retirement,...

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Do Retirement Savings Increase in Response to Information About Retirement and Expected Pensions?

Dolls, Mathias - 2018

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Do Savings Increase in Response to Salient Information About Retirement and Expected Pensions?

Dolls, Mathias - 2016

How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system … on private retirement savings. Our results show that the letters increase private retirement savings. The effects are … increase in savings partly crowds out charitable donations. Moreover, we present evidence suggesting that both information and …

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