Is the belgian Youth Ready for the Reformed Pension System ?

The paper analyses levels of financial literacy among university students in a Belgian University and links them to their retirement savings preferences in a context in which a reform of the pension system has increased the importance of making individual retirement savings decisions at an early age. The core information is generated through a survey questionnaire including a small scenario, a financial literacy evaluation and questions on savings preferences. It is then processed through a logit model. The results show that financial literacy is relatively high in our sample of university stu... Mehr ...

Verfasser: De Cecco, Sidney
Estache, Antonio
Dokumenttyp: workingPaper
Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
Schlagwörter: Economie / financial literacy / retirement savings / savings decisions / students
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28877711
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Link(s) : http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/207640

The paper analyses levels of financial literacy among university students in a Belgian University and links them to their retirement savings preferences in a context in which a reform of the pension system has increased the importance of making individual retirement savings decisions at an early age. The core information is generated through a survey questionnaire including a small scenario, a financial literacy evaluation and questions on savings preferences. It is then processed through a logit model. The results show that financial literacy is relatively high in our sample of university students. However, differences between demographic groups matter to financial literacy and savings decisions. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/published