We estimate the effect of pension reforms on households' expectations of retirement outcomes and private wealth accumulation decisions exploiting a decade of intense Italian pension reforms as a source of exogenous variation in expected pension wealth. The Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a large random sample of the Italian population, elicits expectations of the age at which workers expect to retire and of the ratio of pension benefits to pre-retirement income between 1989 and 2002. We find that workers have revised expectations in the direction suggested by the reform and that there is substantial offset between private wealth and perceived pension wealth, particularly by workers that are better informed about their pension wealth.
Authors
Research Associate University of Bologna
Renata is an Associate Professor at the University of Bologna and IFS Research Associate, working on household consumption, saving and labour supply.
Tullio Jappelli
Mario Padula
Journal article details
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2006.03.005
- Publisher
- Science Direct
- JEL
- H55, E21
- Issue
- December 2006
Suggested citation
R, Bottazzi and T, Jappelli and M, Padula. (2006). 'Retirement expectations, pension reforms and their effect on private wealth accumulation' (2006)
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