of several policies that seek to address job quality, including universal health insurance, a universal retirement system …

employer-provided health insurance, and an employer-sponsored retirement plan – has actually declined. This paper looks at this …

insurance; and has no employer-sponsored retirement plan. By our calculations, about 24 percent of U.S. workers were in a bad …

, the probability of working after normal retirement age is positively related to living with a spouse only, being healthy … elderly people. We also show that working beyond the normal retirement age has a much stronger negative association with … earnings in urban China than in urban Russia. This is consistent with the facts that the normal retirement age is strictly …

lower benefits. Since the vast majority of retirees rely on Social Security for the bulk of their retirement income, this …

government should strengthen Social Security in ways that increase the retirement security of middle- and working-class Americans …. Particular attention should be paid to improving the living standards in retirement of workers in poorly compensated jobs, who … typically have little or no retirement savings outside of Social Security. Some recent proposals to cut Social Security would …

There have been a number of proposals in policy circles that involve raising the Social Security retirement age. This … increases in longevity. This paper examines the impact of an increase in the retirement age on various demographic groups … retirement age from 67 to 70 (2 months a year for 18 years) on each quintile of the wealth distribution using data from the …