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 …

The objective of the paper is to examine the retirement behaviour of Belgian workers in one-earner households who are … study the link between retirement and financial retirement incentives created by the social security system. We find that … the household replacement rate generates slightly higher retirement incentives through an income effect and we find that …

Retirement policies are individually designed but the majority of people of retirement age live as couples. We estimate …'s unobserved heterogeneity. We conclude that the reform immediately reduced both spouses' retirement probability. The wife …'s retirement probability also drops by 1 to 4 percentage points if the husband is hit by the reform, and vice-versa. Instrumenting …

change on the pension system. This is why the retirement age was raised, the pension level was lowered and a so … objectives - from safeguarding living standards in retirement to the stability of contribution rates. The lower future pension …

change on the pension system. This is why the retirement age was raised, the pension level was lowered and a so … objectives - from safeguarding living standards in retirement to the stability of contribution rates. The lower future pension …