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Housing in Retirement Across Countries 15 Aug 2013 | 06:23 pm
Abstract The “retirement saving puzzle” is a phenomenon in which many households U.S. households have significant wealth late in life, contrary to the predictions of a simple life-cycle model. In th...
Why Did Disability Allowance Rates Rise in the Great Recession? 13 Aug 2013 | 06:40 pm
The brief’s key findings are: In most recessions, Disability Insurance (DI) application rates go up and allowance rates go down. The hypothesis for a decline in allowance rates is that individuals ...
Can Benefits and Work Incentives Counseling be a Path to Future Economic Self-Sufficiency for SSI/SSDI Beneficiaries? 8 Aug 2013 | 04:30 pm
Abstract In this paper, we estimate the effect of benefits and work incentives counseling services on labor market outcomes of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insura...
New Brunswick’s New Shared Risk Pension Plan 30 Jul 2013 | 08:26 pm
The brief’s key findings are: Under financial pressure, U.S. state and local pension plans have curbed future benefit costs. But these changes have been ad hoc and unexpected. New Brunswick’s new S...
How Does Women Working Affect Social Security Replacement Rates? 16 Jul 2013 | 07:41 pm
The brief’s key findings are: For married households, the amount of pre-retirement income replaced by Social Security depends on the labor force activity of both spouses. At the high end, couples wi...
How Do the Changing Labor Supply Behavior and Marriage Patterns of Women Affect Social Security Replacement Rates? 15 Jul 2013 | 10:48 pm
Abstract This paper seeks to determine the impact of the changing lives of women – increased labor force participation/earnings and reduced marriage rates – on Social Security replacement rates. Fi...
2013 Retirement Research Consortium Meeting 15 Jul 2013 | 06:57 pm
The 15th annual meeting of the Retirement Research Consortium, “Retirement Security in Changing Times,” will be held August 1 & 2, 2013 at: National Press Club 529 14th St NW 13th Floor Washington...
The Funding of State and Local Pensions: 2012-2016 2 Jul 2013 | 07:00 pm
The brief’s key findings are: During 2012, using current GASB standards, the funded status of public plans declined slightly from 75 percent to 73 percent. This decline reflected slow asset growth, ...
The Impact of Interest Rates on the National Retirement Risk Index 18 Jun 2013 | 06:20 pm
The brief’s key findings are: The National Retirement Risk Index shows that changes in interest rates have only a modest effect on retirement preparedness for …
Social Security and the 2001 Reform of the Railroad Retirement Program 12 Jun 2013 | 11:18 pm
Abstract The experience of the reformed Railroad Retirement program has lessons for initiatives that would invest Social Security assets in equities: To address the risk …
