retirement. The State Financial Security Scorecards research project gauges the retirement readiness of future retirees in each … of the fifty states and the District of Columbia in three key areas: anticipated retirement income; major retirement … states include:1. California due to low potential retirement income, low workplace retirement plan access and high retiree …

Near Term (version 6) to project the retirement resources and well-being of divorced women. We find that Social Security … benefits and retirement incomes are projected to increase for divorced women and that their poverty rates are projected to …For decades, policymakers have discussed how to remedy the high poverty rates of older widows. Yet older divorced women …

We analyse the effects of pension reforms on the planned retirement age of women by exploiting within country variation … pension regime on retirement decisions is affected by the presence of gaps in careers of women. Binding constraints related to … eligibility to pensions indeed reduce the responsiveness of women to changes in pension rules. This explains why, contrary to a …

This article reviews the economic literature on the work and retirement decisions of older women. Economic studies … the family plays only a limited role in the work and retirement decisions of women. The retirement status of the husband … generally find that married women respond to the financial reward for work (for example, wages) in making their work and …

The results from the 1999 Women's Retirement Confidence Survey (WRCS) provide encouraging news on the retirement … Readiness Rating, 7 percent of working-age women seem to be doing a very good job of preparing for retirement, and 28 percent … percent) are doing a poor or very poor job. Forty-four percent of women expect that a major source of their retirement income …

The results from the 2000 Women's Retirement Confidence Survey (WRCS) offer encouraging news on women's retirement …, about planning and saving for retirement. Most women are saving for retirement, which is good, but many still are not. In … crucial component of efforts to ensure the retirement income security of American women …

Blacks, Hispanics, and divorced women have historically experienced double-digit poverty rates in retirement, and …, income sources, or assets, their projected average retirement incomes are lower than those of divorced white women … might expect an increase in the proportion of economically vulnerable divorced women in the future. This article uses the …

We consider the nexus of intra-household transfers, the sex composition of the sibship, and parental retirement … increasing their labor supply. Consistent with this, we show that parents with more adult sons delay their retirement. In … particular, an elderly parent with all sons has a retirement probability that is 7-10 percentage points lower than a comparable …