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The Effects of Changes in Women's Labor Market Attachment on Redistribution Under the Social Security Benefit Formula
Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas L.; Tabatabai, Nahid - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Retirement Study and includes members of households with at least one person age 51 to 56 in either 1992 or in 2004. As expected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323436
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New Age Thinking: Alternative Ways of Measuring Age, Their Relationship to Labor Force Participation, Goverment Policies and GDP
Shoven, John B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
alternative measures reflecting a person's stage in the lifecycle distorts important behavior such as retirement, saving, and the … expectancy (i.e. if the length of retirement stayed where it is today) rather than labor force participation remaining fixed by … retirement lengths stabilize. Several policies are examined that would encourage longer work careers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830936
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Financial Innovation for an Aging World
Mitchell, Olivia; Piggott, John; Sherris, Michael; Yow, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
Over the last half-century, around the world, many nations have seen plummeting fertility rates and mounting life expectancies. These two factors are the engine behind unprecedented global aging. In this paper, we explore how the demographic transition may influence financial markets and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050013
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The Great Recession, Retirement and Related Outcomes
Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas L.; Tabatabai, Nahid - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
This paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine retirement and related labor market outcomes for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185004
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Spousal Labor Market Effects from Government Health Insurance: Evidence from a Veterans Affairs Expansion
Lahey, Joanna N.; Boyle, Melissa A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
the Current Population Survey and Health and Retirement Study, we employ a difference-in-differences strategy to compare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951316
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Time is Money: Life Cycle Rational Inertia and Delegation of Investment Management
Mitchell, Olivia; Kim, Hugh Hoikwang; Maurer, Raimond - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper incorporates two empirically-grounded insights into a dynamic life cycle portfolio choice model: the fact that investors forego the opportunity to accumulate job-specific skills when they spend time managing their own money, and the observation that efficiency in financial decision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210995
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Health, Economic Resources and the Work Decisions of Older Men
Bound, John; Stinebrickner, Todd R.; Waidmann, Timothy Aaron - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
is estimated using data from the Health and Retirement Study. We compare results based on our model to results based on … the normal retirement age, eliminating early retirement altogether and eliminating the Social Security Disability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778198
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Retirement Timing of Women and the Role of Care Responsibilities for Grandchildren
Lumsdaine, Robin L.; Vermeer, Stephanie J.C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper considers the potential relationship between providing care for grandchildren and retirement, among women … nearing retirement age. Using 47,400 person-wave observations from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we find the arrival … of a new grandchild is associated with a more than eight percent increase in the retirement hazard despite little overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103527
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Golden Years or Financial Fears? Decision Making After Retirement Seminars
Allen, Steven; Clark, Robert L.; Maki, Jennifer; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Many organizations provide retirement planning seminars to their employees as a benefit to help them make better … informed retirement decisions.  This study examines the participants in 85 seminars conducted by five companies in 2008 and … 2009 to determine how much learning takes place and whether employees adjust retirement plans.  Using surveys conducted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969279
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Did Age Discrimination Protections Help Older Workers Weather the Great Recession?
Neumark, David; Button, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We examine whether stronger age discrimination laws at the state level moderated the impact of the Great Recession on older workers. We use a difference-in-difference-in-differences strategy to compare older workers in states with stronger and weaker laws, to their younger counterparts, both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950721