Forecasting Retirement Needs and Retirement Wealth (Pension Research Council Publications)
Contributors: Olivia S. Mitchell (Editor); P. Brett Hammond (Editor); Anna M. Rappaport (Editor)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: January 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9780812235296
Subjects: Personal Finance; Retirement; Retirement income; Personal Finance - General; Retirement Plans; Business & Economics; Consumer Finance; Business/Economics; Public Policy - Social Policy; Personal Finance - Retirement Planning; Aging - Retirement; United States; Planning
First sentence: One of the most important and intriguing phenomena in the United States labor markets was the post-World War II early retirement trend: the fact that older men left the labor force earlier and earlier with each succeeding cohort.
Description: "Forecasting Retirement Needs and Retirement Wealth, drawing on the latest information available on health, wealth, and retirement in America, offers new perspectives on ways to support the expanding population of older citizens. The contributors consider how the concept and process of retirement is evolving. They show that new paths to retirement are emerging, paths that involve "bridge" jobs and gradual transitions through various states of employment.

They explore the related and equally important, though difficult, problem of determining what resources people need during retirement and consider ways to think about how much to save for old age."--BOOK JACKET.