Tag: retirement security
The data don’t really speak for themselves. My friend, and occasional collaborator, Andrew Biggs recently argued that “fears of a retirement crisis are overblown – and these numbers prove it.” That got my attention. If real data showed that most people will be fine in retirement, that’s great news. I’ll spend more time in Tuscany!!&nbs…
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…
