Retirement Expectations, Pension Reforms, and Their Impact on Private Wealth Accumulation

Posted: 8 Jun 2006

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Renata Bottazzi

Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)

Tullio Jappelli

University of Naples Federico II - Department of Economics and Statistics; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI); Center for Studies in Economics and Finance - CSEF; CSEF - University of Naples Federico II - Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF)

Mario Padula

University "Ca' Foscari" of Venice; CSEF - University of Naples Federico II - Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF)

Date Written: April 20, 2006

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Expectations, Pension Reform

JEL Classification: E21, H55

Suggested Citation

Bottazzi, Renata and Jappelli, Tullio and Padula, Mario, Retirement Expectations, Pension Reforms, and Their Impact on Private Wealth Accumulation (April 20, 2006). CFS Working Paper No. 2006/10, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=906999

Renata Bottazzi (Contact Author)

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Mario Padula

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Italy

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