Tag: retirement planning
Abstract This project uses the Survey of Income and Program Participation to examine the decision to retire after job separation among the increasing number of older individuals who leave a job between 55 and 70, and how this decision varies by labor market conditions and the resources available to the unemployed. Among individuals whose jobless…
The brief’s key findings are: The 2010 National Retirement Risk Index showed that 53 percent of households will not be able to maintain their standard of living in retirement. But equity and house prices have both increased since then. Interestingly, updating the asset values only reduces the Index to 50 percent because: the rise in…
