disproportionately low savings of individuals on low incomes and non-fungibility between public and private pension wealth. The model is … applied to study welfare and savings implications of automatic enrolment into private pensions. The default option effect on … default scheme. Nevertheless, the impact of automatic enrolment on total savings is ambiguous in general, because in addition …

supplementary savings needed to cover it. The issue of pension system income adequacy is first discussed, and the forecasted and … defined and the size of the gap is analyzed. The amount of savings needed to cover the pension gap is then computed. How … changes in the values of particular parameters influence the amount of monthly savings needed to cover the individual pension …

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 …

among the third of the affiliates with the lowest savings. However, we found that the recent increase in non …

rates and expense ratios, and we estimate this could lead to aggregate savings for these participants over a 20-year period …