Working paper on thepolicy implicationsof pay-as-you-go retirement plansin regard totax and benefit timing. …

households at the peak of their working lives have relatively low savings though there is no evidence of a generational savings … savings and housing capital gains. …

retirement reduced their non-housing saving rate by 3.5 percentage points, on average. This mean effect is driven by high … interpretation is that the survey acted as a salience shock, possibly with respect to reduced housing costs in retirement. …

information on three major economic outcomes, namely, retirement planning, choices pertaining individuals' labor supply, and … savings decisions. We also highlight that the lack of knowledge prevalently hits the most vulnerable individuals in the …

This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of individuals' and couples' labor supply, savings, and retirement … increasing women's retirement age to be equal to men's …

-mandatory retirement savings. Therefore we analyze the intra-household allocation of retirement savings between partners in Germany taking …. These results additionally show a "crowding-in" of total retirement savings amounts between spouses, probably due to some … "peer effect". The unitary model of household decision making can thus be rejected with respect to retirement savings. …