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Maintaining one's living standard at old age : what does that mean? ; evidence using panel data from Germany

Dudel, Christian; Ott, Notburga; Werding, Martin - 2013

How much retirement income is needed in order to maintain one's living standard at old age? As it is difficult to find a firm basis for an empirical treatment of this question, we employ a novel approach to assessing an adequate replacement rate vis- a-vis income in the pre-retirement period. We...

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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality

Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015

research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap …

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Annuity choices and income drawdown : evidence from the decumulation phase of defined contribution pensions in England

Banks, James; Crawford, Rowena; Tetlow, Gemma - In: Journal of pension economics and finance 14 (2015) 4, pp. 412-438

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The influence of personality traits on private retirement savings in Germany

Schäfer, Konrad C. - 2016 - This version: August 2016

This paper analyzes private retirement savings, the amount for German individuals and how these savings are influenced … investigated how the Big-Five and the Locus of Control influence the decision to have private retirement savings, and the estimated … amount of these savings. Results indicate a positive effect for Extraversion and a negative effect for Agreeableness on the …

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The influence of personality traits on private retirement savings in Germany

Schäfer, Konrad C. - 2016

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Subjective life expectancy and private pensions : conference paper

Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Kluth, Sebastian - 2013

One important parameter in the decision process when buying a private annuity is individuals' subjective life expectancy, because it directly infuences the expected rate of return. We examine the market for private annuities in Germany and evaluate potential selection effects based on subjective...

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Who is saving privately for retirement and how much? : new evidence for Germany

Metzger, Christoph - 2015

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 …

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How much do lifetime earnings explain retirement resources?

Bozio, Antoine; Emmerson, Carl; Tetlow, Gemma - 2011

earnings ; savings ; wealth ; retirement …

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Savings and wealth of the lifetime rich : evidence from the UK and US

Bozio, Antoine; Emmerson, Carl; O'Dea, Cormac; Tetlow, Gemma - 2013

Whether higher lifetime income households do save a larger share of their income is one of the longstanding empirical questions in economics that has been surprisingly difficult to answer. We use both consumption data and a new dataset containing both individual survey data on wealth holdings...

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Cash and pensions : have the elderly in England saved optimally for retirement

Crawford, Rowena; O'Dea, Cormac - 2014

Using a model where households can save in either a safe asset or in an illiquid, tax-advantaged pension, we assess the extent to which those who recently reached the state pension age in the UK have saved optimally for retirement. The policy environment specified closely matches that prevailing...

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