approaching their retirement, the average person approaching retirement age is not likely to suffer a life changing financial loss … been greatly exaggerated. If there is any postponement of retirement due to stock market losses, on average it will be a … background information that corrects misperceptions about pension holdings of the retirement age population. Pension coverage is …

This paper estimates the effects on steady state retirement by men of changes in pension" plans and social security in … from the 1969-79 Retirement History" Study and the 1983 and 1989 Surveys of Consumer Finances. Simulations with a … structural" retirement model suggest that the long run effects of changes in pension plans and social security" account for about …

Health and Retirement Study (HRS), for 60 percent of total wealth of HRS households who are in the 45th to 55th wealth …

This paper estimates a structural model of family retirement using U.S. data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS … descriptions. We find that a measure of how much each spouse values being able to spend time in retirement with the other accounts … for a good portion of the apparent interdependence of the retirement decisions of husbands and wives. When we include this …

state retirement of men. Work incentives associated with pension coverage and plan characteristics are calculated primarily … from the 1969-79 Retirement History Study and the 1983 and 1989 Surveys of Consumer Finances. Simulations with a structural … retirement model suggest that the long-run effects of changes in pension plans and social security account for about a quarter of …

Health and Retirement Study (HRS), for 60 percent of total wealth of HRS households who are in the 45th to 55th wealth …

This paper estimates a structural model of family retirement using U.S. data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS … descriptions. We find that a measure of how much each spouse values being able to spend time in retirement with the other accounts … for a good portion of the apparent interdependence of the retirement decisions of husbands and wives. When we include this …