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Non-take-up of tax-favored savings plans : are household portfolios optimal?

Alessie, Rob; Hochgürtel, Stefan; Soest, Arthur van - 2001

Since the early nineties, the Dutch tax system allows for a tax-favored form of risk free savings through employer …-sponsored savings plans (ESSPs). Under some conditions and up to a certain amount, the contributions to this planare tax-deductible, and … suggests that those who have access to this type of savings should participate inthem, provided they have some financial wealth …

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Mapping the minds of retirement planners

Hershey, Douglas A.; Henkens, Kène; Dalen, Hendrik P. van - 2006

This study explored the psychological mechanisms that underlie the retirement planning and saving tendencies of Dutch and American workers. Participants were 988 Dutch and 429 Americans, 25-64 years of age. Analyses were designed to: (a) examine the extent to which structural variables were...

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Interactions between financial incentives and health in the early retirement decision

Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Galama, Titus J.; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2017

We present a theory of the relation between health and retirement that generates testable predictions regarding the interaction of health, wealth and financial incentives in retirement decisions. The theory predicts (i) that wealthier individuals (compared to poorer individuals) are more likely...

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The impact of wealth on job exit rates of elderly workers

Bloemen, Hans G. - 2007 - This version January 2007

the Netherlands in the period 1995 through 2001, we analyse the impact of wealth, savings, and debt position on job exit …

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Optimal sharing of labor productivity risks and mix of pay-as-you-go and savings

Kusmerski Bilard, Debora - 2008

-As-You-Go (PAYG) social security, and the mix ofPAYG and savings for retirement provision in a small open economy. It shows that … paper also provides acondition for partial displacement of savings by the PAYG, which is in line with vastempirical evidence. …

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Private wealth and job exit at older age : a random effects model

Bloemen, Hans G. - 2008 - This version March 2008

Private wealth holdings are likely to become an increasingly important determinant in the job exit decision of elderly workers. Net wealth may correlate with worker's characteristics that also determine the exit out of a job. It is therefore important to include a rich set of observed...

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Saving and habit formation : evidence from Dutch panel data

Alessie, Rob; Teppa, Federica - 2002

This paper focuses on the role of habit formation in individual preferencesover consumption and saving. We closely relate to Alessie and Lusardi's(1997) model as we estimate a model which is based on their closed-formsolution, where saving is expressed as a function of lagged saving and...

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How costly is using livestock as a saving device? : a note on meat prices during food shortages

Zant, Wouter - 2020

. Savings instruments to bridge food shortage periods that do not lose value when liquidated, are needed. Currently popular …

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Savings adequacy uncertainty : driver or obstacle to increaded pension contributions?

Schie, Ron J. G. van; Donkers, Bas; Dellaert, Benedict G. C. - 2012

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Gender, stock market participation and financial literacy

Almenberg, Johan; Dreber, Anna - In: Economics letters 137 (2015), pp. 140-142

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