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. …

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. …

the effect of the reform on the savings and retirement expectations and realizations of two virtually identical male … of workers born in 1950 or later. At the same time, a tax-facilitated savings plan was introduced that implied a large … savings subsidy for all workers, irrespective of birth year. This paper uses linked administrative and survey data to assess …

decades. Voluntary savings for retirement will therefore gain more and more relevance in order to maintain one’s standard of … living during retirement. This article examines the savings behavior for retirement on an individual level in Germany. As a … out to be less likely to save additionally privately for retirement. In a second step the chosen gross saving rates are …