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access to up to $A20,000 of their ‘preserved’ retirement savings, making otherwise illiquid balances temporarily liquid …, findings raise the question of whether the framing of mandatory retirement savings as a mental account solely to finance …
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This paper makes use of a natural experiment to examine effects of potential capital losses and general attractiveness of pension schemes on employees' propensity to change jobs. On January 1st 2004, the two largest pension funds in the Netherlands, for civil servants and for the health care...
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This paper makes use of a natural experiment to examine effects of potential capital losses and general attractiveness of pension schemes on employees' propensity to change jobs. On January 1st 2004, the two largest pension funds in the Netherlands, for civil servants and for the health care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688514
We empirically investigate the distributional consequences of the Riester scheme, the main private pension subsidization program in Germany. We find that 38% of the aggregate subsidy accrues to the top two deciles of the population, but only 7.3% to the bottom two. Nonetheless the Riester scheme...
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Many studies show that workers make poor decisions about pension savings. Policy responses to these failures include … social security retirement arrangements, tax benefits for pension savings and, in some countries, also mandatory private … savings towards retirement. This study examines the response of Israeli employees to the introduction of mandatory pension …
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panel of U.S. tax data, including tens of millions of person-year observations, and measure retirement savings contributions … and withdrawals. We use these data to document several important changes in retirement savings patterns during the …, contributions to retirement savings vehicles did not meaningfully decline. Second, driven by the suspension of required minimum …
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panel of US tax data, including tens of millions of person-year observations, and measure retirement savings contributions … and withdrawals. We use these data to document several important changes in retirement savings patterns during the … pandemic relative to prior years, and we compare these results to changes in savings patterns during the Great Recession. We …
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Medium- and long-run dynamics undermine the effect of automatic enrollment and default savings-rate auto-escalation on … retirement savings. Our analysis of nine 401(k) plans incorporates the facts that employees frequently leave firms (often before …
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pay-as-you-go universal pension. In addition, the model allows for a compulsory private retirement savings scheme …
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This paper examines the effects of non-contributory pension programs at the federal and state levels on Mexican households' saving patterns using micro data from the Mexican Income and Expenditure Survey. The federal program by itself appears to reduce the saving rate of households whose oldest...
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