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How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system … public pension payments. This reform did not change the level of pensions, but only provided information to individuals about … these letters on the behavior of individuals. We find an increase in tax-deductible private retirement savings and provide …
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Many nations incentivize retirement saving by letting workers defer taxes on pension contributions, imposing them when retirees withdraw their funds. Using a dynamic life cycle model, we show how 'Rothification' - that is, taxing 401(k) contributions rather than payouts - alters saving,...
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The Chilean pension system was hit hard during 2020-2021 by the withdrawal of 25 per cent of the individual pensions … pensions, including its heterogeneity matrix to simulate the distribution of pension impacts. The withdrawal impact decreases … percent and 37 percent for males and females' new self-financed pensions around the year 2022, which goes to about 56 percent …
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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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-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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pension system, where savings are matched by government grants. Accounting for the resulting tax expenditure, our models …
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; aging ; household ; household saving ; intergenerational inequity ; Japan ; pension reform ; pensions ; population aging … ; public pensions ; public pension reform ; saving ; social security …
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We use 6 waves of the Bank of Italy's Survey on household income and wealth (SHIW) to check the evolution of workers' expectations on future pension benefits and retirement age from 2000 to 2012. Based on these two subjective evaluations, we compute a measure of expected pension benefit and...
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three topics: Social Security overhaul, 401(k) enrollment and accumulations, and health savings accounts. Before the forum …
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are not consistent with a simple life cycle explanation for savings. They also raise questions about whether pensions are … and Retirement Study (HRS), and the role of pensions in forming retirement wealth. Pension coverage is widespread … average for this cohort on the verge of retirement. When pensions and social security are included, wealth accumulated by the …
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