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Four funerals and a wedding: We're growing older and it won't be cheap
Clement, Douglas (2004-03)
Fedgazette , Volume 16 , Issue Mar , Pages 2-5

Journal Article
Social Security and Medicare: no free lunch
Viard, Alan D.; Saving, Jason L. (2005-01)
Southwest Economy , Issue Jan , Pages 1, 8-12

Working Paper
Health, Health Insurance, and Retirement: A Survey
Jones, John Bailey; French, Eric (2017-02-17)
The degree to which retirement decisions are driven by health is a key concern for both academics and policymakers. In this paper we survey the economic literature on the health-retirement link in developed countries. We describe the mechanisms through which health affects labor supply and discuss how they interact with public pensions and public health insurance. The historical evidence suggests that health is not the primary source of variation in retirement across countries and over time. Furthermore, declining health with age can only explain a small share of the decline in employment ...
Working Paper , Paper 17-3

Working Paper
Do households have enough wealth for retirement?
Love, David A.; Smith, Paul A.; McNair, Lucy C. (2007)
Dramatic structural changes in the U.S. pension system, along with the impending wave of retiring baby boomers, have given rise to a broad policy discussion of the adequacy of household retirement wealth. We construct a uniquely comprehensive measure of wealth for households aged 51 and older in 2004 that includes expected wealth from Social Security, defined benefit pensions, life insurance, annuities, welfare payments, and future labor earnings. Abstracting from the uncertainty surrounding asset returns, length of life and medical expenses, we assess the adequacy of wealth using two ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series , Paper 2007-17

Journal Article
Working in the golden years and paying for it: the retirement earnings test
Zaretsky, Adam M. (2000-01)
With heavy penalties for post-retirement employment, it's no wonder that senior citizens are choosing the golf course over the labor force.
The Regional Economist , Issue Jan , Pages 10-11

Journal Article
Pandemic Labor Force Participation and Net Worth Fluctuations
Faria-e-Castro, Miguel; Jordan-Wood, Samuel (2024-01-05)
The US labor force participation rate (LFPR) experienced a record drop during the early pandemic. While it has since recovered to 62.2 percent as of December 2022, it was still 1.41 percentage points below its pre-pandemic peak. This gap is explained mostly by a permanent decline in the LFPR for workers older than 55. This article argues that wealth effects driven by the historically high returns in major asset classes such as stocks and housing may have influenced these trends. Combining an estimated model of wealth effects on labor supply with micro data on balance sheet composition, we ...
Review , Volume 106 , Issue 1 , Pages 40-58

Working Paper
Reverse mortgage loans: a quantitative analysis
Nakajima, Makoto; Telyukova, Irina A. (2014-09-08)
Supersedes Working Paper 13-27. Reverse mortgage loans (RMLs) allow older homeowners to borrow against housing wealth without moving. Despite growth in this market, only 2.1% of eligible homeowners had RMLs in 2011. In this paper, the authors analyze reverse mortgages in a calibrated life-cycle model of retirement. The average welfare gain from RMLs is $885 per homeowner. The authors? model implies that low-income, low-wealth, and poor-health households benefit the most, consistent with empirical evidence. Bequest motives, nursing-home-move risk, house price risk, and loan costs all ...
Working Papers , Paper 14-27

Speech
The recovery and monetary policy
Dudley, William (2012)
Remarks at the National Association for Business Economics Annual Meeting, New York City.
Speech , Paper 89

Journal Article
Are we saving enough?
Gokhale, Jagadeesh (2000-07)
Americans are saving less than they used to. At the same time, they are spending more years in retirement, and Social Security still has long-term financial shortfalls. The author finds that most American households must raise their saving rates considerably if they are to maintain their current living standards through retirement.
Economic Commentary , Issue Jul

Journal Article
The puzzle of later male retirement
Johnson, Richard (2002-07)
For decades until 1985, the share of older American men who worked for pay trended downward. Since 1985, though, that share has been stable or rising. By 2001, the new trend in male retirement behavior had added 2 million workers to the U.S. labor force. Since the number of older men in the United States will increase dramatically as the baby-boom generation ages, the new trend could become even more significant for the U.S. economy in the future.> Understanding male retirement behavior is important to both monetary and fiscal policymakers. Later retirement affects monetary policy by ...
Economic Review , Volume 87 , Issue Q III , Pages 5-26

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