Housing expenditure and income inequality

C Dustmann, B Fitzenberger… - The Economic …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The trend of rising income inequality in Germany since the mid-1990s is strongly amplified
when considering income after housing expenditure. The income share of housing …

Assets, saving and wealth, and poverty: A Review of evidence. Final report to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation

BA Searle, S Köppe - 2014 - researchrepository.ucd.ie
This review examines the evidence on the extent to which savings, assets and wealth can
provide a safety net against unexpected expenses or drops in income. It also looks at …

Savings in times of demographic change: Lessons from the German experience

A Börsch‒Supan, T Bucher‒Koenen… - A Collection of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Pension reforms in many developed countries make individuals shoulder a bigger share of
longevity and income risks. The desired response is that individuals accumulate private …

Who is saving privately for retirement and how much? New evidence for Germany

C Metzger - International Review of Applied Economics, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Due to demographic change, the replacement rates of the German statutory pension
scheme will decrease over the next decades. Voluntary savings for retirement will therefore …

The joint distribution of net worth and pension wealth in Germany

T Bönke, MM Grabka, C Schröder… - Review of Income …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The research on wealth inequality has generally focused on real and financial assets, while
giving little attention to pension wealth: the present value of future pension entitlements from …

A Head‐to‐Head Comparison of Augmented Wealth in Germany and the United States

T Bönke, MM Grabka, C Schröder… - … Journal of Economics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We examine the composition of augmented household wealth (ie, the sum of net worth and
pension wealth) in the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a …

Social security and public insurance

A Börsch-Supan, K Härtl, DN Leite - … of the economics of population aging, 2016 - Elsevier
When the challenges of population aging are being debated, the uncertain future of pension
systems is a topic of high priority and large controversy. The aim of this chapter is not to …

The effectiveness of tax incentives to encourage private savings

L Fadejeva, O Tkacevs - Baltic Journal of Economics, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This study examines the impact of tax incentives for long-term savings on total private
savings using data for Latvia contained in HFCS 2014 and 2017. The survey shows that …

Distributional effects of subsidizing retirement savings accounts: Evidence from Germany

G Corneo, J König, C Schröder - FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis, 2018 - JSTOR
We empirically investigate the distributional consequences of the Riester scheme, the main
private pension subsidization program in Germany. We find that 38% of the aggregate …

Financial literacy, Riester pensions, and other private old age provision in Germany

T Bucher-Koenen - 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
Tabea Bucher-Koenen Page 1 FINANCIAL LITERACY, RIESTER PENSIONS, AND OTHER
PRIVATE OLD AGE PROVISION IN GERMANY Tabea Bucher-Koenen 250-2011 Page 2 …