Tag: 401k
Reports provide mixed picture on plans already automated. Given the large gap between retirement needs and retirement resources, our retirement programs need to work as well as possible. In the private sector, 401(k) plans, the main vehicle for retirement saving, are not working as well as they could. This problem could be remedied with mor…
Abstract Much of the disagreement over whether households are adequately prepared for retirement reflects differences in assumptions regarding the extent to which consumption declines when the kids leave home. If consumption declines substantially when the kids leave home, as some life-cycle models of retirement saving assume, households need to achieve lower replacement rates in retirement…
