incentives matter for the retirement behavior of the self-employed. We also provide evidence of the self-employed not wanting to … retire as early as possible, and contrast these expectation data with realized retirement transitions. The overall picture …

Together, pensions, social security and health insurance account for half of the wealth held by all households in the … Health and Retirement Study (HRS), for 60 percent of total wealth of HRS households who are in the 45th to 55th wealth …

-age caring for husbands or parents. By providing this unpaid care women might enter retirement earlier, rather than prolonging … other countries as well as in the United States. -- elder care ; long-term care ; gender differences ; retirement policies …

the last decades in employer-provided pensions, Social Security program, and societal changes may have altered the …'t properly measure income from retirement accounts and thus overestimate importance of Social Security and underestimate reliance … on income from pensions. Given changes to the CPS, we focus on reliance on Social Security benefits among the elderly …

How much retirement income is needed in order to maintain one's living standard at old age? As it is difficult to find … replacement rate vis- a-vis income in the pre-retirement period. We subject indications regarding satisfaction with current income … the year of entry into retirement as a rather robust result, while replacement rates keeping the living standard unchanged …