We compare older workers' plans for work and retirement with their subsequent work and retirement outcomes using panel … data from the Health and Retirement Study. Among those with retirement plans, about half indicate they would like to cut … them. Instead, a large fraction of these individuals stop working entirely. Our findings suggest that older workers may …

Policy experts advance our understanding of the labor market experiences of older workers while pointing our that …

point to the critical policy issues we must face when growing numbers of older workers begin to strain the capacity of those …

Unemployment compensation in the United States is provided through a federal-state system of unemployment insurance (UI …). UI provides temporary partial wage replacement to active job seekers who are involuntarily out of work. For older workers … full-time work in a career job to retirement is voluntary and orderly. For others, job displacement greatly disrupts plans …

generated unemployment spells for men and women across the earnings distribution. We find lower income workers suffer greater … percentage losses in retirement savings as a result of more frequent spells of unemployment. Higher income worker losses are more …The link between unemployment and pension accumulations is conceptually straightforward; periods of unemployment lead …