crisis. The paper recommends obligatory priv ate savings at a variable rate where the time path of the savings rate is chosen …

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 …

This paper analyses the savings behaviour of natives and immigrants in Germany. It is argued that uncertainty about … savings. Using the German Socio-economic Panel data it is shown that, although immigrants have lower levels of savings and are … less likely to have regular savings than natives, the gap is significantly narrowed once we take loan repayments and …

crisis. The paper recommends obligatory priv ate savings at a variable rate where the time path of the savings rate is chosen …

This paper investigates the determinants of the bank savings and fixed assets of Turkish migrants residing in Germany …. We find that migrants with firmer roots in Germany are more likely to hold savings and fixed assets in Germany, and those … with stronger links to Turkey are more likely to hold savings and fixed assets in Turkey. As expected, income is a positive …

crisis. The paper recommends obligatory private savings at a variable rate where the time path of the savings rate is chosen …