Tag: life expectancy
The brief’s key findings are: Working longer is a powerful way to improve retirement security, and some suggest it also improves health. But does working longer improve health or does good health lead to working longer? A temporary tax policy change in the Netherlands that encouraged some older workers to stay in the labor forc…
For most of the 20th century, life expectancy was on the rise. Yet older Americans were retiring at younger and younger ages. That changed in the 1990s. Life expectancy continued to rise, but retirement ages started increasing too. Many significant developments are behind the dramatic shift in retirement habits, including the decline of private-sector pensions,…
