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The design of pension schemes is crucial in determining savings behavior. The impact of pension schemes on saving rates … between saving patterns and pension wealth. This paper investigates the effect of the private pension contributions on savings … distribution. According to the results, the savings rate is negatively associated with private pensions at all quantile levels. The …
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Both health and income inequalities have been shown to be much greater in Britain than in Germany. One of the main reasons seems to be the difference in the relative position of the retired, who, in Britain, are much more concentrated in the lower income groups. Inequality analysis reveals that...
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Both health and income inequalities have been shown to be much greater in Britain than in Germany. One of the main reasons seems to be the difference in the relative position of the retired, who, in Britain, are much more concentrated in the lower income groups. Inequality analysis reveals that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635077
were interviewed to assess their knowledge about pensions and financial issues and about their own savings and personal …
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were interviewed to assess their knowledge about pensions and financial issues and about their own savings and personal …
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Much of the focus of the UK pensions policy debate over the past decade has been on the adequacy (or otherwise) of private retirement saving. In this paper, we present the first assessment of the optimality of the retirement resources of English couple households born in the 1940s. Here,...
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to evaluate the adequacy of retirement savings. We find first that the specification of the model's asset structure …
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Recent declines in job tenure have coincided with a shift away from traditional defined benefit (DB) pensions, which reward long tenure. New evidence also points to an increase in job-to-job movements by workers, and we document gains in relative wages of job-to-job movers over a similar period....
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This paper uses panel data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to study the effect of care-giving on retirement. The findings suggest that care- and support-giving contributes to the retirement decision, in particular for men. While the frequency of care activities...
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