-mandatory retirement savings. Therefore we analyze the intra-household allocation of retirement savings between partners in Germany taking …. These results additionally show a "crowding-in" of total retirement savings amounts between spouses, probably due to some … "peer effect". The unitary model of household decision making can thus be rejected with respect to retirement savings. …

expenditures and needs in retirement reduced their non-housing saving rate by 3 percentage points. The size of the effect is …

This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of individuals' and couples' labor supply, savings, and retirement … increasing women's retirement age to be equal to men's …

-mandatory retirement savings. To answer this question we analyze the intra-household allocation of retirement savings between partners in … of household decision making can thus be rejected with respect to retirement savings. …Traditionally, households have been seen as acting as a single unit when it comes to savings. Although this might be …

decades. Voluntary savings for retirement will therefore gain more and more relevance in order to maintain one’s standard of … living during retirement. This article examines the savings behavior for retirement on an individual level in Germany. As a … out to be less likely to save additionally privately for retirement. In a second step the chosen gross saving rates are …