Pensions in the Health and Retirement Study / / Nahid Tabatabai, Thomas L. Steinmeier, Alan L. Gustman.

This book presents a careful analysis of pension data collected by the Health and Retirement Study, a unique survey of people over the age of fifty conducted by the University of Michigan for the National Institute on Aging. The authors studied pensions as they evolve over individuals’ work lives an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables and Figures
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Theories Explaining Pensions
  • 3 Employment and Retirement in the Health and Retirement Study
  • 4 Pension Data in the Health and Retirement Study
  • 5 Pension Plan Participation in the Health and Retirement Study
  • 6 Pension Plan Type
  • 7 Imperfect Knowledge of Pension Plan Type
  • 8 Pension Retirement Ages
  • 9 Pension Values
  • 10 Retirement Incentives from Defined Benefit Pensions
  • 11 Disposition of Pensions upon Leaving a Job and Pension Incomes in Retirement
  • 12 The Changing Role of Pensions in Total Wealth
  • 13 Conclusions
  • Appendix: Constructed Files
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index