Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 260
Cover Image
What is an adequate standard of living during retirement?
Binswanger, Johannes; Schunk, Daniel - 2009
Many economists and policy-makers argue that households do not save enough to maintain an adequate standard of living during retirement. However, there is no consensus on the answer to the underlying question about what this standard should be, despite the fact that it is crucial for the design...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923525
Cover Image
Effective retirement savings programs : design features and financial education
Olsen, Anya; Whitman, Kevin - In: Social security bulletin 67 (2007) 3, pp. 53-72
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796481
Cover Image
Lifetime earnings, social security benefits, and the adequacy of retirement wealth accumulation
Engen, Eric M.; Gale, William G.; Uccello, Cori E. - In: Social security bulletin 66 (2005) 1, pp. 38-57
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003405961
Cover Image
Assessing the performance of life-cycle portfolio allocation strategies for retirement saving : a simulation study
Bridges, Benjamin; Gesumaria, Robert; Leonesio, Michael V. - In: Social security bulletin 70 (2010) 1, pp. 23-43
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003978629
Cover Image
Does retirement education teach people to save pension distributions?
Muller, Leslie A. - In: Social security bulletin 64 (2001) 4, pp. 48-65
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001781806
Cover Image
Will women save more than men? : a theoretical model of savings and marriage
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Pereira, Alfredo M. - 2010
higher marriage rates and higher divorce rates will be associated with higher savings rates in the presence of economies of … marriage and with lower savings rates in the presence of diseconomies of marriage. In the context of traditional gender roles … traditional gender roles and marital status to understanding cross-country variation in gender differentials in savings behavior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003997600
Cover Image
Population, pensions, and endogenous economic growth
Heer, Burkhard (contributor); Irmen, Andreas (contributor) - 2008
We study the effect of a declining labor force on the incentives to engage in labor-saving technical change and ask how this effect is influenced by institutional characteristics of the pension scheme. When labor is scarcer it becomes more expensive and innovation investments that increase labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003791799
Cover Image
Testing for convergence in stock markets : a non-linear factor approach
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Erdogan, Burcu; Kuzin, Vladimir - 2009
This paper applies the Phillips and Sul (2007) method to test for convergence in stock returns to an extensive dataset including monthly stock price indices for five EU countries (Germany, France, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK) as well as the US over the period 1973-2008. We carry out the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898817
Cover Image
International migration of couples
Junge, Martin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - 2014
We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples, and test it in the context of international migration. Our model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates increases in the earnings of the primary earner. The effect of the earnings of the secondary earner may go either way....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010388635
Cover Image
Gender differences in face-to-face deceptive behavior
Lohse, Tim; Qari, Salmai - 2019
We study the role of face-to-face interaction for gender differences in deceptive behavior and perceived honesty. In the first part, we compare women's to men's deceptive behavior using data from an incentivized income reporting experiment in which lies can be detected in the course of an audit....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138824