Tag: Early retirement

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Why Do Women Claim Social Security Benefits So Early?

Issue Brief by and

October 1, 2005

Introduction If individuals continue to withdraw completely from the labor force in their early 60s, a large and growing number will be hard pressed to maintain an adequate standard of living throughout retirement. Economic and demographic pressures are gradually eroding key sources of retirement income at the same time that increases in life expectancy mean…

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The Effect of Unplanned Changes in Marital and Disability Status: Interrupted Trajectories and Labor

Working Paper by and

September 5, 2002

Abstract This study explored the effect of unplanned changes in disability and marital status on labor force participation for a sample of just under six thousand men and women born between 1931 and 1941. It was based on wave 1 (1992) through wave 4 (1998) of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data. Binomial hierarchica…

The Supplemental Security Income Program and Incentives to Take up Social Security Early Retirement: Empirical Evidence from Matched SIPP and Social Security Administrative Files

Working Paper by and

September 6, 2001