declining public pension levels due to reforms made necessary by demographic change. In 2001, Germany introduced the Riester …, numerous criticisms raise doubts that the market for Riester products is transparent. Using the 2010 German SAVE survey, this … paper investigates for the first time terminated and dormant Riester contracts on a household level. Respectively 14.5% and …

subsidies and tax incentives (Riester-scheme). That policy especially targets households with relatively low incomes. Using data …Die Riester-Förderung soll dazu beitragen, dass häufiger und mehr für die Altersvorsorge gespart wird. Der Einfluss der … Riester-Förderung auf die Sparneigung von Haushalten mit niedrigem Einkommen ist dabei ein zentrales Kriterium zur …

introduction of the Riester scheme as a natural experiment. The estimation results cast some doubts on the effectiveness of the …Since 2002 the German government has promoted private retirement saving plans by means of special subsidies and tax … incentives (Riester scheme). This policy mainly targets low-income households. Using data from the German Socio-economic Panel …

subsidies and tax incentives (Riester-scheme). That policy especially targets households with relatively low incomes. Using data … from the German Socio-economic Panel, we scrutinize the impact of the Riester-scheme on private saving. Our estimation … results suggest that the Riester-scheme neither increases the fraction of households with positive savings, nor increases the …

exemptions - the so-called Riester scheme. We apply matching and panel regression techniques to assess the impact of the Riester …-Economic Panel and the SAVE study indicate that private saving was hardly affected by the introduction of the Riester scheme. …