Tag: full retirement age

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Abstract This paper examines the effect of the increase in the Social Security Full Retirement Age (FRA) and the associated decrease in benefits for early claimants on retirement rates at ages 62 to 65.  It uses information on age, sex, and labor force participation from the monthly Current Population Survey from 1976 to 2019.  Critica…

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Abstract As the U.S. population becomes more diverse, it will be increasingly important for policymakers addressing Social Security’s solvency to understand how reliant various racial and ethnic groups will be on the program versus other sources of retirement wealth.  Yet, to date, studies on retirement wealth have tended not to focus on race and ethnicity,…