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Tables of Contents for Assessing Knowledge of Retirement Behavior
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1 INTRODUCTION
1
10
Eric A. Hanushek
Nancy L. Maritato
Income and Wealth of Older American Households
4
1
Labour Supply Behavior
5
1
Personal Saving Behavior
6
1
Employer Behavior
7
1
Mortality, Health Status, and Health Care Costs
8
1
A Framwork for Analyzing Retirement Income Security
9
1
Conclusion
10
1
2 INCOME AND WEALTH OF OLDER AMERICAN HOUSEHOLDS: MODELING ISSUES FOR PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS
11
50
Alan L. Gustman
F. Thomas Juster
Conceptual Overview
11
2
Components of Income and Wealth of Older Households
13
8
Models of Individual and Firm Behavior Explaining Retirement Income and Wealth
21
14
Reconciling Research on Labour Supply, Savings, and Pensions
35
2
Models and Data Needed to Understand the Incomes and Wealth of Older Americans
37
2
Selected Policies Affecting Retirement Incomes and Wealth
39
2
Appendix Tables and Figures
41
9
Notes
50
3
References
53
8
3 FACTORS AFFECTING LABOR SUPPLY DECISIONS AND RETIREMENT INCOME
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62
Robin L. Lumsdaine
Summary of Trends
62
8
Social Security
70
5
Pensions and Window Plans
75
12
Disability
87
9
Medicare and Health Insurance
96
6
Hours Flexibility and Career Jobs
102
7
Conclusions
109
5
Notes
114
1
References
115
8
4 PERSONAL SAVING BEHAVIOR AND RETIREMENT INCOME MODELING: A RESEARCH ASSESSMENT
123
26
James M. Poterba
Forecasting Financial Status: An Organizing Framework
124
6
Motives For and Models of Private Saving: What Do We Know?
130
3
Social Security and Private Saving
133
2
Private Pensions and Saving
135
2
Targeted Retirement Saving Accounts and Personal Saving
137
4
Housing Wealth and Other Private Saving
141
2
Conclusion and Future Research Needs
143
1
References
144
5
5 RETIREMENT AGE AND RETIREMENT INCOME: THE ROLE OF THE FIRM
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46
Donald O. Parsons
The Aging Worker and the Firm
152
10
The Employment of Older Workers
162
7
Employer-Provided Pensions
169
10
Conclusions
179
6
Notes
185
2
References
187
8
6 ASSESSING FORECASTS OF MORTALITY, HEALTH STATUS, AND HEALTH COSTS DURING BABY BOOMERS' RETIREMENT
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49
Ronald D. Lee
Jonathan Skinner
How Rapidly Will Mortality Decline?
198
14
Health Status Projections and the Compression of Disability
212
7
Predicting Health Care Costs
219
6
How Will Changing Mortality, Health, and Health, and Health Costs Affect Retirement Income Security?
225
11
Conclusion
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1
Notes
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1
References
283
6
7 A FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYZING FUTURE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY
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29
Gary Burtless
Micro Models of Retirement Income
248
8
Dynamic Microsimulation
256
4
Macroeconomic Modeling
260
4
Cycles
264
2
Conclusion
266
3
Notes
269
2
References
271
2
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
273