
Assessing Knowledge of Retirement Behavior
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- Assessing Knowledge of Retirement Behavior
- Copyright
- Preface
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- INCOME AND WEALTH OF OLDER AMERICAN HOUSEHOLDS
- LABOR SUPPLY BEHAVIOR
- PERSONAL SAVING BEHAVIOR
- EMPLOYER BEHAVIOR
- MORTALITY, HEALTH STATUS, AND HEALTH CARE COSTS
- A FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYZING RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY
- CONCLUSION
- 2 Income and Wealth of Older American Households: Modeling Issues for Public Policy Analysis
- CONCEPTUAL OVERVIEW
- COMPONENTS OF INCOME AND WEALTH OF OLDER HOUSEHOLDS
- Income Distribution Issues
- MODELS OF INDIVIDUAL AND FIRM BEHAVIOR EXPLAINING RETIREMENT INCOME AND WEALTH
- Income from Earnings Based on Labor Supply Decisions
- Savings and Wealth Determination
- Life-Cycle Analysis
- Precautionary Models of Savings
- Bequest Motive
- Research Integrating These Motives
- Research that Imposes Only Limited Structure
- Research Arguing that Full Optimization is Unlikely
- Continuing Controversy in the Savings Literature
- Pensions and Social Security
- At the Level of the Individual
- Pension Plan Determination at the Level of the Firm
- Research on Family Structures and Transfers
- Research on Housing
- RECONCILING RESEARCH ON LABOR SUPPLY, SAVINGS, AND PENSIONS
- MODELS AND DATA NEEDED TO UNDERSTAND THE INCOMES AND WEALTH OF OLDERAMERICANS
- SELECTED POLICIES AFFECTING RETIREMENT INCOMES AND WEALTH
- APPENDIX TABLES AND FIGURES
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 3 Factors Affecting Labor Supply Decisions and Retirement Income
- SUMMARY OF TRENDS
- SOCIAL SECURITY
- PENSIONS AND WINDOW PLANS
- Literature Review and Previous Methodology
- What we would like to know
- DISABILITY
- Literature Review and Previous Methodology
- What We Would Like to Know
- MEDICARE AND HEALTH INSURANCE
- Literature Review and Previous Methodology
- What We Would Like to Know
- HOURS FLEXIBILITY AND CAREER JOBS
- Literature Review and Previous Methodology
- What We Would Like to Know
- CONCLUSIONS
- Expectations
- Endogeneity
- Uncertainty
- Data Issues
- Other Concerns
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 4 Personal Saving Behavior and Retirement Income Modeling: A Research Assessment
- FORECASTING FINANCIAL STATUS: AN ORGANIZING FRAMEWORK
- Patterns of Wealth Holding for Pre-Retirement Cohorts
- Rates of Return
- Age-Specific Patterns of Net Saving
- MOTIVES FOR AND MODELS OF PRIVATE SAVING: WHAT DO WE KNOW?
- SOCIAL SECURITY AND PRIVATE SAVING
- PRIVATE PENSIONS AND SAVING
- TARGETED RETIREMENT SAVING ACCOUNTS AND PERSONAL SAVING
- Prospective Accumulation in Targeted Saving Accounts
- Net Saving Effects
- Withdrawal Behavior
- HOUSING WEALTH AND OTHER PRIVATE SAVING
- CONCLUSION AND FUTURE RESEARCH NEEDS
- REFERENCES
- 5 Retirement Age and Retirement Income: The Role of the Firm
- THE AGING WORKER AND THE FIRM
- The Aging Worker
- The Firm
- Scale Economies in Pension Administration
- Diseconomies of Scale in Idiosyncratic Decisions
- THE EMPLOYMENT OF OLDER WORKERS
- Compensation Profiles
- Mandatory Retirement Rules
- New-Hire Policies
- EMPLOYER-PROVIDED PENSIONS
- The Locus of Pension Coverage
- Trends in Pension Coverage
- A Pension Puzzle
- CONCLUSIONS
- Basic Data Needs
- The Ideal: Matched Worker/Firm Surveys of Workplaces
- Second Best: Employer Surveys with Estimates of Worker Characteristics
- Case Studies
- Administrative Cost Surveys
- Historical Analyses of Firm Behavior
- Basic Research
- The Determinants of Industry Structure
- The Firm, Information, and Control
- Aging and the Firm: Unfinished Business
- Priority Topics
- Emerging Issues
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 6 Assessing Forecasts of Mortality, Health Status, and Health Costs During BabyBoomers' Retirement
- HOW RAPIDLY WILL MORTALITY DECLINE?
- Mortality Decline in the United States During the 20th Century
- Comparisons of Forecasts
- Other Methods of Forecasting Mortality Change
- Evaluating the Uncertainty of Mortality Forecasts
- Some Specific Research Suggestions Using Existing Data and Established Methods
- Recommended Improvements in Data
- Recommended Research on Modeling and Methods
- HEALTH STATUS PROJECTIONS AND THE COMPRESSION OF DISABILITY
- The Compression Debate
- Strategies to Modeling Disability
- Recommendations for Improving Modeling and Data Collection
- PREDICTING HEALTH CARE COSTS
- Predicting Real Health Care Services by Demographic Group
- Predicting Health Care Quantities and Prices for the Next Century
- Conceptual Issues in Modeling Health Care Cost Projections
- HOW WILL CHANGING MORTALITY, HEALTH, AND HEALTH COSTS AFFECT RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY?
- The Effect of Changes in the Demographic Structure on Income Security for the Elderly
- Traditional Approaches
- Stochastic Population Forecasts
- The Impact of Improving Patterns of Disability on Delaying Retirement
- The Distribution of Health Expenses Among Out-of-Pocket, Private Insurance, and Public Insurance
- The Distribution of Retirement Income
- CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 7 A Framework for Analyzing Future Retirement Income Security
- MICRO MODELS OF RETIREMENT INCOME
- Social Security Forecasts
- Employer-Sponsored Pensions
- Household Saving
- DYNAMIC MICROSIMULATION
- Rationale
- Disadvantages
- MACROECONOMIC MODELING
- Determination of Aggregate Output
- Alternative Saving Models
- CYCLES
- CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Biographical Sketches
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