Explaining Europeans' preferences for pension provision

Bas van Groezen, Hannah Kiiver and Brigitte Unger

European Journal of Political Economy, 2009, vol. 25, issue 2, 237-246

Abstract: This paper analyses which factors are most important for explaining why people in fifteen European countries prefer either public, occupational or private pension provision. We make a distinction between personal characteristics such as age, gender and occupation, nationality and the actual, current kind of pension provision that respondents have. Using a large European survey, we find that although all three types of variables are important, the current pension provision and nation-specific effects have a much stronger effect than personal characteristics.

Keywords: Attitude; Opinion; Pensions; Welfare; state (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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