Savings behaviour when households have an access to occupational pensions
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Authors:
Kalvarskaia, Maria
Year:
2003
Reference:
Memorandum
Number in series: 23
Summary
The main aim of the paper is to describe savings behaviour of household’s through saving functions. It means to define factors, which influence the households’ decision-making process on how much to save. The influence of pension system and accessible types of pensions together with income and age variables are considered as the main parameters, which determine behaviour. Savings functions are introduced here as linear regression models with income variable included in entropy form. Estimation of the model is done for a particular group of population, only full households are included.
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Oppdragsgiver: Norges forskningsrådOppdragsgivers prosjektnr.:
Frisch prosjekt: 1132 - Labour force participation among the elderly and the finances of the pension system
Financing:
Norges forskningsråd