Topic: Work and Retirement
Work Ability and the Social Insurance Safety Net in the Years Prior to Retirement
Richard W. Johnson, Melissa M. Favreault, and Corina Mommaerts
An Update on 401(k) Plans: Insights from the 2007 Survey of Consumer Finance
Alicia H. Munnell, Richard A. Kopcke, Francesca Golub-Sass, and Dan Muldoon
Older Americans On The Go: Financial and Psychological Effects of Moving
Esteban Calvo, Kelly Haverstick, and Natalia A. Zhivan
Older Americans On The Go: How Often, Where, and Why?
Kelly Haverstick and Natalia A. Zhivan
The Asset and Income Profile of Residents in Seniors Care Communities
Norma B. Coe and Melissa Boyle
Determinants and Consequences of Moving Decisions for Older Homeowners
Esteban Calvo, Kelly Haverstick, and Natalia A. Zhivan
The Implications of Declining Retiree Health Insurance
Courtney Monk and Alicia H. Munnell
Spousal Health Shocks and the Timing of the Retirement Decision in the Face of Forward-Looking Financial Incentives
Courtney Van Houtven
Employers' (Lack of) Response to the Retirement Income Challenge
Steven A. Sass, Kelly Haverstick, and Jean-Pierre Aubry
Interdependent Durations in Joint Retirement Decisions
Aureo de Paula
Why Are Older Workers at Greater Risk of Displacement?
Alicia H. Munnell, Steven A. Sass, and Natalia A. Zhivan
Caregiving and Work: Complements or Substitutes?
Norma B. Coe and Courtney Harold van Houtven
Is the Upsurge in Tenure Breaks for Older Workers a Cause for Concern?
Steven Sass, Natalia A. Zhivan, and Anthony Webb
Labor Supply Elasticity and Social Security Reform
Selahattin Imrohoroglu and Sagiri Kitao
Recessions, Wealth Destruction, and the Timing of Retirement
Barry Bosworth and Gary Burtless
Portfolio Choice in Retirement: Health Risk and the Demand for Annuities, Housing and Risky Assets
Motohiro Yogo
Recessions and Older Workers
Alicia H. Munnell, Dan Muldoon, and Steven A. Sass
Retirement and Social Security: A Time Series Approach
Brendan Cushing-Daniels and C. Eugene Steuerle
Can the Bottom Third Work Longer?
Alicia H. Munnell, Geoffrey Sanzenbacher, and Steven A. Sass
Are Older Men Healthy Enough to Work?
Alicia H. Munnell, Mauricio Soto, and Alex Golub-Sass
The Decline of Career Employment
Alicia H. Munnell and Steven A. Sass
Identifying Local Differences in Retirement Patterns
Leora Friedberg, Michael Owyang, and Anthony Webb
Do State Economics or Individual Characteristics Determine Whether Older Men Work?
Alicia H. Munnell, Mauricio Soto, Robert K. Triest, and Natalia A. Zhivan
What Effect Do Time Constraints Have on the Age of Retirement?
Leora Friedberg, Wei Sun, and Anthony Webb
How Much Do State Economics and Other Characteristics Affect Retirement Behavior?
Alicia H. Munnell, Mauricio Soto, Robert K. Triest, and Natalia A. Zhivan
Will People Be Healthy Enough to Work Longer?
Alicia H. Munnell, Mauricio Soto, and Alex Golub-Sass
Why Do More Older Men Work in Some States?
Alicia H. Munnell, Mauricio Soto, and Natalia A. Zhivan
An Assessment of Life-Cycle Funds
Mauricio Soto, Robert K. Triest, Alex Golub-Sass, and Francesca Golub-Sass
A Micro-Level Analysis of Recent Increases in Labor Force Participation Among Older Workers
Kevin E. Cahill, Michael D. Giandrea, and Joseph F. Quinn
The Rising Age at Retirement in Industrial Countries
Gary Burtless
An "Elastic" Earliest Eligibility Age for Social Security
Natalia Zhivan, Steven A. Sass, Margarita Sapozhnikov, and Kelly Haverstick
Do Out-of-Pocket Health Care Costs Delay Retirement?
Richard W. Johnson, Rudolph G. Penner, and Desmond Toohey
The Effect of Economic Conditions on the Employment of Workers Nearing Retirement Age
Till von Wachter
A Gradual Exit May Not Make for a Happier Retirement
Esteban Calvo, Kelly Haverstick, and Steven A. Sass
Health Insurance and the Labor Supply Decisions of Older Workers: Evidence from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Melissa A. Boyle and Joanna N. Lahey
Population Aging, Labor Demand, and the Structure of Wages
Margarita Sapozhnikov and Robert K. Triest
What Makes Retirees Happier: A Gradual or 'Cold Turkey' Retirement?
Esteban Calvo, Kelly Haverstick, and Steven A. Sass
Work at Older Ages: Is Raising the Early Retirement Age an Option for Social Security Reform?
John A. Turner
Older Workers: Lessons From Japan
John B. Williamson and Masa Higo
Measurement Error in Earnings Data in the Health and Retirement Study
Jesse Bricker and Gary V. Engelhardt
Employers Lukewarm About Retaining Older Workers
Andrew D. Eschtruth, Steven A. Sass, and Jean-Pierre Aubry
The Labor Supply of Older Americans
Alicia H. Munnell and Steven A. Sass
Why Do Japanese Workers Remain in the Labor Force So Long?
John B. Williamson and Masa Higo
Will People Be Healthy Enough to Work Longer?
Alicia H. Munnell and Jerilyn Libby
The Recent Trend Towards Later Retirement
Leora Friedberg
Phased Retirement: Problems and Prospects
Robert Hutchens
What Happens to Health Benefits After Retirement?
Richard W. Johnson
Job Changes at Older Ages: Effects on Wages, Benefits, and Other Job Attributes
Richard W. Johnson and Janette Kawachi
The Repeal of the Retirement Earnings Test and the Labor Supply of Older Men
Gary V. Engelhardt and Anil Kumar
Persistence in Labor Supply and the Response to the Social Security Earnings Test
Leora Friedberg and Anthony Webb
How Do Age Discrimination Laws Affect Older Workers?
Joanna N. Lahey
Do Older Workers Face Greater Risk of Displacement?
Alicia H. Munnell, Steven Sass, Mauricio Soto, and Natalia Zhivan
Age, Women, and Hiring: An Experimental Study
Joanna Lahey
Health Care Costs, Taxes, and the Retirement Decision: Conceptual Issues and Illustrative Simulation
Rudolph G. Penner and Richard W. Johnson
Will We Have to Work Forever?
Alicia H. Munnell, Marric Buessing, Mauricio Soto, and Steven Sass
Employer Attitudes Toward Older Workers: Survey Results
Alicia H. Munnell, Steven A. Sass and Mauricio Soto
Why Do Boomers Plan to Work So Long?
Gordon B.T. Mermin, Richard W. Johnson, and Dan Murphy
Job Tenure and Pension Coverage
Alicia H. Munnell, Kelly Haverstick, and Geoffrey Sanzenbacher
Has the Displacement of Older Workers Increased?
Alicia H. Munnell, Steven Sass, Mauricio Soto, and Natalia Zhivan
Earnings and Women's Retirement Security
Alicia H. Munnell and Natalia Zhivan
Working for a Good Retirement
Barbara A. Butrica, Karen E. Smith and C. Eugene Steuerle
Population Aging and the Structure of Wages
Robert K. Triest, Steven A. Sass and Margarita Sapozhnikov
Policies to Promote Labor Force Participation of Older People
Alicia H. Munnell
What Makes Older Women Work?
Alicia H. Munnell and Natalia Jivan
Do Older Workers Face Discrimination?
Joanna N. Lahey
What Makes Retirees Happy?
Keith A. Bender and Natalia A. Jivan
Local Labor Market Conditions and Retirement Behavior
Dan A. Black and Xiaoli Liang
Validation Study of Earnings Data in the SIPP - Do Older Workers Have Larger Measurement Error?
Peter Gottschalk and Minh Huynh
Does Work Pay at Older Ages?
Barbara A. Butrica, Richard W. Johnson, Karen E. Smith, and Eugene Steuerle
How Do Pensions Affect Expected and Actual Retirement Ages?
Alicia H. Munnell, Robert K. Triest, and Natalia A. Jivan
Do Spouses Coordinate Their Retirement Decisions?
Richard W. Johnson
Why Are So Many Older Women Poor?
Alicia H. Munnell
Is Working Longer the Answer for an Aging Workforce?
Gary Burtless and Joseph F. Quinn
Are Older Workers Responding to the Bear Market?
Andrew D. Eschtruth and Jonathan Gemus
Employment, Social Security, and Future Retirement Outcomes for Single Mothers
Richard W. Johnson, Melissa M. Favreault, and Joshua H. Goldwyn
Health Shocks and Couples' Labor Supply Decisions
Courtney Coile
Job Search Behavior at the End of the Life Cycle
Hugo Benitez-Silva
Medicare, Retirement Costs, and Labor Supply at Older Ages
Richard W. Johnson
The Effect of Unplanned Changes in Marital and Disability Status: Interrupted Trajectories and Labor
John B. Williamson and Tay K. McNamara
Why Some Workers Remain in the Labor Force Beyond the Typical Age of Retirement
John B. Williamson and Tay K. McNamara
Planning for Retirement: The Accuracy of Expected Retirement Dates and the Role of Health Shocks
Debra S. Dwyer
Elderly Labor Supply: Work or Play?
Steven Haider and David Loughran
Retiring Together or Working Alone: The Impact of Spousal Employment and Disability on Retirement Decisions
Richard W. Johnson and Melissa Favreault
Patterns of Time Use of People Age 55 to 64 Years Old: Some Cross-National Comparisons
Anne H. Gauthier and Timothy M. Smeeding
Self-Employment and Labor Market Transitions at Older Ages
Donald Bruce, Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Joseph Quinn
Interim Report on the Impact of Increasing Earnings Inequality on Retirement Decisions and the Distribution of Social Security Benefits
Peter Gottschalk and Minh Huynh