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Effects of Pensions on Saving : Analysis with Data from the Health and Retirement Study

Gustman, Alan L. - 1998

a simple life cycle explanation for savings. They also raise questions about whether pensions are fundamentally a tax … and Retirement Study (HRS), and the role of pensions in forming retirement wealth. Pension coverage is widespread … those with pensions than for those without pensions. Multivariate regressions relating total wealth to pension coverage and …

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Retirement and Wealth

Gustman, Alan L. - 2001

of pensions and social security that better reflects the accrual of benefits under defined contribution plans. We also …

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Effects of Social Security Policies on Benefit Claiming, Retirement and Saving

Gustman, Alan L. - 2013

An enhanced version of a structural model jointly explains benefit claiming, wealth and retirement, including reversals from states of lesser to greater work. The model includes stochastic returns on assets. Estimated with Health and Retirement Study data, it does a better job of predicting...

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Imperfect Knowledge of Pension Plan Type

Gustman, Alan L. - 2007

This paper investigates the reasons for discrepancies between the pension plan type reported by respondents to the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and pension plan type obtained from documents produced by their employers, called Summary Plan Descriptions (SPDs). The analysis suggests the...

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Retirement Effects of Proposals by the President's Commision to Strengthen Social Security

Gustman, Alan L. - 2003

A structural dynamic model of retirement and saving is used to simulate the retirement effects of proposals made by the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security. Provisions reducing the growth in real benefits and increasing actuarial incentives to work reduce retirements. They more...

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Social Security, Pensions and Retirement Behavior Within the Family

Gustman, Alan L. - 2002

This paper estimates a structural model of family retirement using U.S. data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women. Estimates using the HRS benefit from having, for each spouse, earnings histories provided by the respondent and the...

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Social Security Benefits of Immigrants and U.S. Born

Gustman, Alan L. - 1998

For each year of work under the Social Security System, immigrants realize higher benefits than U.S. born, even when their earnings are identical in all years the immigrant has been in the U.S.. Two features of the social security benefit calculation are responsible: the social security benefit...

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Trends in Male Labor Force Participation And Retirement : Some Evidence On The Role Of Pensions And Social Security In The 1970's And 1980's

Anderson, Patricia M. - 1997

This paper estimates the effects on steady state retirement by men of changes in pension" plans and social security in the 1970's and 1980's. Work incentives associated with pension" coverage and plan characteristics are calculated primarily from the 1969-79 Retirement History" Study and the...

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Pension and Social Security Wealth in the Health and Retirement Study

Gustman, Alan L. - 1997

Together, pensions, social security and health insurance account for half of the wealth held by all households in the …

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Pension COLAs

Gustman, Alan L. - 1991

This paper studies cost of living adjustments in pensions from the perspective of labor economics. Evidence from … value of pensions by only fourteen percent. Simulation analysis allows an examination of the effects of pension COLA …

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