Tag: retirement income
Abstract Working consistently through one’s fifties and early sixties is key to attaining retirement security. However, workers also need access to retirement plans – so they can continue to accumulate resources – and health insurance – so they can avoid withdrawing assets in the event of a health shock. Workers without access to these benefits…
People’s attachment much weaker, retirement more prevalent, and many jobs lack benefits. We just finished a paper on how older workers use “nontraditional” jobs – that is, jobs without health and retirement benefits. In the process of answering that question, we found that only 26 percent of older workers were employed steadily in traditional jobs…
