Arbeitspapier
Mandatory pension savings and long-run debt accumulation: Evidence from Danish register data
This paper uses two decades of individual level information from Danish administrative registers to show that a 1-dollar increase in pension wealth leads to a 26-cent rise in total debt. We exploit time-sector variation in mandatory pension contribution rates to isolate the effect of pension wealth on the full financial balance sheet. Concerns of confounding factors are mitigated by sampling employees in identical occupations who have worked in the same sectors but at different points in time. Liquidity constraints seem to play a key role, and we couple the crowding-out effect with an increased propensity to use interest-only mortgages.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Danmarks Nationalbank Working Papers ; No. 156
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Household Saving; Personal Finance
Intertemporal Household Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving
Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth
- Subject
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Household debt
Household balance sheets
pension savings
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Andersen, Henrik Yde
Hansen, Niels Lynggård
Kuchler, Andreas
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Danmarks Nationalbank
- (where)
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Copenhagen
- (when)
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2020
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Andersen, Henrik Yde
- Hansen, Niels Lynggård
- Kuchler, Andreas
- Danmarks Nationalbank
Time of origin
- 2020
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