Savings, pensions and wealth

This paper looks at the policy debate surrounding private pensions and retirement patterns in the UK.

This paper looks at the policy debate surrounding private pensions and retirement patterns in the UK.

The adequacy of household saving for retirement has become a policy issue all around the world.

We estimate the effect of pension reforms on households expectations of retirement outcomes and private wealth accumulation decisions exploiting a decade of Italian pension reforms as a source of exogenous variation in expected pension wealth.

his paper uses UK panel data to shed further light on the fall in spending at retirement (the retirement-consumption puzzle).

This paper was presented at a seminar organised by the Economic and Social Research Council. It asks whether it is possible to design a pension system that can guarantee financial security to individuals, employers and to the state simultaneously.

This paper studies the relationship between demographic change and international capital flows using a large cross-country time-series dataset.

In this paper we investigate the way consumption changes around retirement in Italy.

In this paper we use the two waves of the British Retirement Survey (1988/1989 and 1994) to quantify the relationship between socioeconomic status and health outcomes.

In this Briefing Note, we discuss whether or not the government's proposed reforms are likely to help individuals to make choices about how to provide for their retirement that are appropriate to their circumstances. We focus particularly on whether or not the proposals might prompt those individuals who are not thought to be providing sufficiently for their retirement to save more each year or to retire at an older age than might otherwise have been the case.

Comparing household wealth distribution, wealth inequality, and wealth holdings in the United States and the United Kingdom.

We examine the role of ill-health in retirement decisions in Britain, using the first eight waves of the British Household Panel Survey (1991-98).