Tag: late boomers
The brief’s key findings are: Late Boomers have less retirement wealth than earlier cohorts, including surprisingly low 401(k) assets. To explain this drop, the analysis explored both changing demographics and labor market experiences. The results show that part of the drop is due to a decline in the share of Late Boomers who are White, married, and…
And what’s the outlook for Gen-Xers and Millennials? Late Boomers have low levels of wealth regardless of how it is defined – total wealth, retirement wealth, or 401(k)/IRA wealth. A decline in some wealth components had been expected as a result of the rise in Social Security’s Full Retirement Age, the shift from defined benefit…
