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 …

for and control over the accumulation and use of savings for retirement. …

studies. We use aunique panel data set on household savings. We find that that a higher unemploymentexpectation significantly … decreases savings. However, we are not able to identify asignificant relationship between general future income expectations and … savings. Moreover,we find that good health expectations increase savings in Western Germany, butdecrease the savings in …

decline in savings. Using cross-sectional data from Europe between 1960 and 2020 to estimate the optimal saving function, we … European households. We show that an increase in youth labor supply causes a rise in household savings. In response to an … increase in corporate equity, household savings experience a sustained decline, while a fall in interest rate translates into a …

probabilities that are less accurate in predicting their in-sample mortality. There is little evidence that the gradients in the … veracity of expectations are due to the less educated and cognitively able responding less to changes in objective mortality …