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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w12447 |
来源ID | Working Paper 12447 |
Employer Matching and 401(k) Saving: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study | |
Gary V. Engelhardt; Anil Kumar | |
发表日期 | 2006-08-17 |
出版年 | 2006 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Employer matching of employee 401(k) contributions can provide a powerful incentive to save for retirement and is a key component in pension-plan design in the United States. Using detailed administrative contribution, earnings, and pension-plan data from the Health and Retirement Study, this analysis formulates a life-cycle-consistent econometric specification of 401(k) saving and estimates the determinants of saving accounting for non-linearities in the household budget set induced by matching. The participation estimates indicate that an increase in the match rate by 25 cents per dollar of employee contribution raises 401(k) participation by 3.75 to 6 percentage points, and the estimated elasticity of participation with respect to matching ranges from 0.02-0.07. The parametric and semi-parametric estimates for saving indicate that an increase in the match rate by 25 cents per dollar of employee contribution raises 401(k) saving by $400-$700 (in 1991 dollars). The estimated elasticity of 401(k) saving to matching is also small and ranges from 0.09-0.12 overall, with just under half of this effect on the intensive margin. Overall, the analysis reveals that matching is a rather poor policy instrument with which to raise retirement saving. |
主题 | Macroeconomics ; Consumption and Investment ; Public Economics ; Taxation ; Labor Economics ; Labor Compensation |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w12447 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/570105 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Gary V. Engelhardt,Anil Kumar. Employer Matching and 401(k) Saving: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study. 2006. |
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