New IFS research published today and jointly funded by the Department for Work and Pensions and the Economic and Social Research Council, examines what is known about how the tax and benefit system influences retirement saving decisions. The report highlights that many individuals have an incentive to accumulate private pension funds prior to retirement and that some of these individuals face very strong incentives to make their pension contributions at particular times during their working lives.
Authors
Carl Emmerson
Carl, a Deputy Director, is an editor of the IFS Green Budget, is expert on the UK pension system and sits on the Social Security Advisory Committee.
Matthew Wakefield
Matthew is Associate Professor at the University of Bologna focusing on consumption and savings choices and how policy affects them.
Richard Blundell
Richard is Co-Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) and Senior Research Fellow at IFS.
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