Are retirement savings sufficient to finance a good pension income? This highly uncertain and subjective dimension of … replacement rates are systematically higher than the American rates - the perceived savings adequacy is more or less the same … across Dutch and American workers. Moreover, individuals’ perceived savings adequacy was found to be influenced by the three …

How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system … change the level of pensions, but only manipulated the knowledge about and salience of expected pension payments. Using … on private retirement savings. Our results show that the letters increase private retirement savings. The effects are …

heterogeneity of rearing costs and of enjoying children is introduced. Two major results: (i) excluding negative savings, fertility … decreases with pension contributions and increases with taxes; (ii) the introduction of fertility-dependent pensions may …

How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system … change the level of pensions, but only manipulated the knowledge about and salience of expected pension payments. Using … on private retirement savings. Our results show that the letters increase private retirement savings. The effects are …

shows that the amount of income available for consumption, that is income after taxes, mortgage payments, savings, union … retiring Canadian, average Canadians will need little in the way of occupational pensions or retirement saving to live … government pensions. …

revenues did not influence the consumption and savings decisions of households, in this analysis the short-term indicators of … increased public debt and household savings. Consequently, similarly to official statistics, our household indicators and our …