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total wealth of each household in the Health and Retirement Study by $67,000 in 1992 dollars, raising wealth from employer …By 1992, pensions and retiree health insurance represented one quarter of the wealth of families on the verge of … provided pension benefits per household by 150 percent in real terms. Changes in retiree health benefits, which have only about …
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Employer-provided health benefit coverage for workers who retire before age 65 has fallen over the last decade. We examine a cohort of male workers from the Health and Retirement Survey to examine questions about the dynamics of retiree health benefits and the relationship between retiree health...
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This paper documents the trends in the life-cycle profiles of net worth and housing equity between 1983 and 2004. The net worth of older households significantly increased during the housing boom of recent years. However, net worth grew by more than housing equity, in part because other assets...
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This paper documents the trends in the life-cycle profiles of net worth and housing equity between 1983 and 2004. The net worth of older households significantly increased during the housing boom of recent years. However, net worth grew by more than housing equity, in part because other assets...
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Is the current mix of tax preferences for employer-sponsored pensions and individual retirement saving in the U.S. delivering the best possible retirement-preparedness across and within generations? Using data from the triennial Survey of Consumer Finances for 1989 through 2013, cohort-based...
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-quarter of total household wealth in Europe provides further corroboration for this finding. …In this paper, we analyze the saving motives of European households using micro-data from the Household Finance and …
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