argue that working citizens would benefit by having their pension funds accumulating in individual pension savings accounts … for three reasons. First, citizens would have a clear picture of the accumulation of their own pension savings throughout … member states should not allow individual pension savings accounts. This approach, as an alternative to forcing workers to …

This paper examines the interaction between altruism towards offspring and precautionary savings. It investigates … whether increased uncertainty in children labor income fosters savings of parents. We first construct a two-periods and two …-generations model, to underline which are the mechanisms behind the intergenerational precautionary motive for savings. Second, we …