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-person households (e.g. with a husband and a wife) from the Dutch CentER Savings Survey, we find that wives find saving for old age more …
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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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-person households (e.g. with a husband and a wife) from the Dutch CentER Savings Survey, we find that wives find saving for old age more …
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In a nationally-representative sample, we predict retirement savings using survey-based elicitations of exponential … present over the future, are highly significant and economically meaningful predictors of retirement savings. These … calculations suggest that eliminating EGB and PB would increase retirement savings by approximately 12 percent. …
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This paper investigates retirees' optimal purchases of fixed and variable longevity income annuities using their defined contribution (DC) plan assets and given their expected Social Security benefits. As an alternative, we also evaluate using plan assets to boost Social Security benefits...
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This study examines the role of actual and perceived financial sophistication (i.e., financial literacy and confidence) for individuals' wealth accumulation. Using survey data from the German SAVE initiative, we find strong gender- and education-related differences in the distribution of the two...
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Using employees' longitudinal data, we study the effect of working hours on the propensity of firms to sponsor training of their employees. We show that, whereas male part-time workers are less likely to receive training than male full-timers, part-time working women are as likely to receive...
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This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of individuals' and couples' labor supply, savings, and retirement …
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relationship between the gender gap in financial literacy and the gender gap in pension savings amongst non-retired adults aged 18 … where the focus is on pension savings and a more structural specification where the focus is on the "pension return" (the … ratio of pension savings to cumulative earnings). Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition analysis suggests that around 8.5 per cent of …
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