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security are the least well informed about their social security benefits, while those who are most dependent on pensions are …
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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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This paper constructs a model of retirement and saving by two earner couples. The model includes three dimensions of behavior: the joint determination of retirement and saving; heterogeneity in time preference; and the interdependence of retirement decisions of husbands and wives. Estimation is...
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This paper investigates how increases in the level of maximum earnings subject to the Social Security payroll tax have affected Social Security benefits and taxes. The analysis uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to ask how different the present value of own benefits and taxes would...
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of findings. First, the more valuable the pension, the more knowledgeable are covered workers about their pensions. We … forms of wealth. Rather, counting pensions in total wealth, those with more valuable pensions save more for retirement …, other things the same. Fourth, there is no evidence that wealth held outside of pensions is influenced by knowledge of …
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This paper uses asset and labor market data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to investigate how the recent "Great Recession" has affected the wealth and retirement of those in the population who were just approaching retirement age at the beginning of the recession, a potentially...
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of pensions earned on jobs not covered by Social Security, a key determinant of the size of WEP and GPO adjustments. Also …
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This paper questions recent conclusions that the trend towards defined contribution plans and away from defined benefit plans is due to increased pension regulation and/or a changing economic environment. Using data from IRS 5500 filings by pension administrators, we find that at least half of...
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This paper examines retirement and related behavioral responses to policies that on average are actuarially neutral. Many conventional models predict that actuarially neutral policies will not affect retirement behavior. In contrast, our model allows those with high time preference rates to find...
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detailed information on the level and distribution of pension wealth and a variety of incentives from pensions. Differences … between the pensions of men and women are largely explained by differences in earnings. However, there also are differences in … similar between the NLS-MW and HRS surveys. Systematic differences between the surveys in the rate at which pensions were …
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