The employment of older workers into their mid-60s will be critical to their ability to ensure a secure retirement. One … course, disrupt their retirement saving plans, and lead to premature retirement. This paper explores the relationship between …

As the baby boom cohort reaches retirement age, demographic pressures on public programs such as Social Security may …

As baby boomers near traditional retirement ages, many express an intent to work longer. But older workers often look … phased retirement — where an older full-time worker remains with the same employer and gradually reduces work hours — has … considerable appeal for employees. Phased retirement may help employers as well by allowing them to keep experienced and productive …

Today men on average retire at 63 and women at 62, and they can expect to spend 20 years in retirement. But if … Security will provide less relative to pre-retirement earnings as the normal retirement age rises from 65 to 67 and those lucky … enough to have a 401(k) plan are likely to find their balances inadequate. One solution to the retirement security challenge …

Financing retirement is one of the major challenges facing an aging U.S. population. If individuals continue to retire … in their early 60s, many will be hard pressed to maintain an adequate standard of living throughout retirement due to the … declining role of Social Security, the shift to 401(k) plans, and low personal saving rates. Combine the retirement income …

A crucial decision facing retirement savers is how to allocate their savings across broad investment classes, including …-border investing would have been advantageous to U.S. retirement savers in the past. The analysis is based on empirical evidence on … returns. The goal is to determine whether U.S. workers would have obtained higher expected retirement incomes, with smaller …

This paper estimates how much people actually receive in retirement relative to earnings before retirement when all … need between 70 and 75 percent of their pre-retirement earnings to maintain their life style once they stop working. The … objective of this study is to determine what people are actually receiving in retirement. Regardless of how retirement income …

little to increase retirement preparedness among lower-income groups. …