living during retirement. This article examines the savings behavior for retirement on an individual level in Germany. As a … decades. Voluntary savings for retirement will therefore gain more and more relevance in order to maintain one’s standard of … well as the disposable household income. Furthermore migrants and individuals living in the Eastern part of Germany turn …

-mandatory retirement savings. To answer this question we analyze the intra-household allocation of retirement savings between partners in … of household decision making can thus be rejected with respect to retirement savings. … correct for some parts of household savings, we question the correctness of the unitary model with respect to non …

The German pension reforms in 2001 and 2004 increased the importance of private supplemental savings for retirement … retirement savings. Germans seem to have a good grasp of basic financial concepts. However, individuals with low education face …. Calculating the appropriate retirement income needed and choosing the right product postulates some degree of financial knowledge …

retirement security, enhancing welfare by up to 20% of retiree plan accruals. …

We adapt the design of five experimental studies on retirement decision-making and conduct reproductions with a larger … subjects collect retirement benefits as lump-sum instead of annuities, they choose to retire later. The duration of retirement … affects the saving behavior of the subjects. Savings are higher when they are incentivized with matching contributions than …

This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of individuals' and couples' labor supply, savings, and retirement … impacts. The analysis finds that household structure is an important determinant of the behavioral and distributional impacts … increasing women's retirement age to be equal to men's …