information from two household surveys, and by so doing, attempts to assess the relative importance of precautionary saving and … analyses of these two datasets show that precautionary saving plays a relatively important role in explaining the lower than … expected wealth decumulation rate of the retired elderly, at least in the case of Japan, even though both precautionary saving …

literature on household saving behavior in Japan (with emphasis on the author's own past research) to shed light on whether or … the age structure of the population on the saving rate, the saving behavior of retired households, saving motives, the …

households’ voluntary saving using administrative micro data with comprehensive third-party reported information on taxpayers … reduce voluntary saving when faced with a rise in mandatory saving. Our results are confirmed by the finding that workers who … move between the public and the private sector, which have different mandatory saving rates, do not change their voluntary …

In this paper, we analyze the saving motives of European households using micro-data from the Household Finance and … Consumption Survey (HFCS), which is conducted by the European Central Bank. We find that the rank ordering of saving motives … most important saving motive of European households when the proportion of households saving for each motive is used as the …

We analyze the impact of population aging on Japan's household saving rate and on its public pension system and the … impact of that system on Japan's household saving rate and obtain the following results: first, the age structure of Japan …'s population can explain the level of, and past and future trends in, its household saving rate; second, the rapid aging of Japan …