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The saving behaviour of two person households : evidence from Dutch panel data
Euwals, Rob; Börsch-Supan, Axel; Eymann, Angelika - 2000
-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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339680
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The saving behaviour of two person households : evidence from Dutch panel data
Euwals, Rob; Börsch-Supan, Axel; Eymann, Angelika - 2000
-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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001605154
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Actual and perceived financial sophistication and wealth accumulation : the role of education and gender
Bannier, Christina E.; Neubert, Milena - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417255
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Gender and the effect of working hours on firm-sponsored training
Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386670
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Gender pension gaps in a private retirement accounts system : a dynamic model of household labor supply and savings
Joubert, Clément; Todd, Petra - 2020
This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of individuals' and couples' labor supply, savings, and retirement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297945
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Gender, financial literacy and pension savings
Preston, Alison; Wright, Robert E. - 2022
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187217
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010222359
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010402536
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The impact of sex ratios before marriage on household saving in two Asian countries : the competitive saving motive revisited
Horioka, Charles; Terada Hagiwara, Akiko - 2016
This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and the Republic of Korea using longterm time series data for the 1975-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the premarital sex ratio on the household saving rate. To summarize the main findings of the paper, it finds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011579569