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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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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
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Financial literacy : Thai middle class women do not lag behind
Grohmann, Antonia; Hübler, Olaf; Kouwenberg, Roy; … - 2016
This research studies the stylized fact of a "gender gap" in that women tend to have lower financial literacy than men. Our data which samples middle-class people from Bangkok does not show a gender gap. This result is not explained by men's low financial literacy, nor by women's high income and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011553048
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Thrifty wives and lavish husbands? : Bargaining power and financial decisions in Germany
Keese, Matthias - 2011
retirement period, increased female bargaining power could lead to higher savings and wealth accumulation. In contrast, a … weibliche Verhandlungsmacht keinen oder einen negativen Einfluss auf Sparen und Vermögen hat, selbst wenn man die Erwartungen … der Partner über ihre zukünftige Alterssicherung (etwa durch Leistungen der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung) einbezieht …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009124261
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Choice without consciousness : women's participation in household decisions and gender equality in children's education
Saleemi, Sundus; Kofol, Chiara - 2020
In this paper, we test if households where women participate in decisions regarding children's education and allocation of household education budgets incur more equal expenditures on education of boys and girls. Moreover, we test if women's awareness of gender equality can reduce inequality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149916