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In most data sets of labor force participation of the elderly, an empirical regularity that emerges is that retirement … given the economic considerations that retirees typically face. This paper considers the puzzle of why retirement rates are …
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Disability, work and retirement -- New age thinking: alternative ways of measuring age, their relationship to labor … status and transitions during the pre-retirement years: learning from international differences / Arie Kapteyn, James P … -- Retirement saving -- The rise of 401(k) plans, lifetime earnings, and wealth at retirement / James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti …
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respect to work, retirement, Social Security, and age discrimination law. We present estimates of poverty by age and sex …, showing that poverty increases with age for women due to older women often outliving their spouses and becoming widowed. We … summarize research on how older women were differentially negatively impacted by the elimination of Social Security's Retirement …
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We examine respondents in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to observe how their financial situations unfolded as … retirement, and progress through their retirement years, and (b) labor force participation declined and thus earnings became less … important with age, while Social Security and retirement savings rose as a proportion of annual income …
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Government transfers to older persons in Canada are one of the largest and fastest growing" components of the … government budget. I provide an overview of the interaction between these" transfer programs and retirement behavior. I begin by …
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This longitudinal analysis of the labor market behavior of older, urban white males in 1969, 1971, and 1973 focuses on changes from wage-and-salary to self-employment and changes from working to non-working status. In each two-year transition approximately four percent of wage-and-salary workers...
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We examine the role of self-employment in retirement transitions using a panel of administrative tax data. We find that … the hazard of self-employment increases at popular retirement ages associated with Social Security eligibility …, particularly for those with greater retirement wealth. Late-career transitions to self-employment are associated with a larger drop …
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-sectional studies linking early retirement to increased Social Security income have also made explicit or implicit temporal projections … longitudinal data for men aged 58-62 in 1969 in order to trace changes in labor force behavior near retirement age. Results …
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