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Domestic finance
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What drives health care spending? Can we know whether population aging is a ‘red herring’?
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H.J. Aaron
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Center for Retirement Research, Boston College,
2009
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Many studies argue that projections of health care spending should be based on the assumption that age-specific health care spending should be assumed to decline because of reductions in age-specific ...
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Is Latin America retreating from individual retirement accounts?
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F. Bertranou;E. Calvo;E. Bertranou
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Center for Retirement Research, Boston College,
2009
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In 1981, Chile initiated old-age pension reforms that introduced mandatory funded individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and moved away from public systems. Ten other Latin American countries followed ...
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The housing bubble and retirement security
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A.H. Munnell;M. Soto
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Center for Retirement Research, Boston College,
2008
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House prices rose 60 percent between 2000 and 2007 before the housing bubble burst in the United States. Has the housing boom made people better or worse prepared for retirement?...
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The rising age at retirement in industrial countries
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G. Burtless
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Center for Retirement Research, Boston College,
2008
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This paper examines recent trends in retirement behaviour in 21 rich countries. It proposes three measures of labour-force exit, and estimates labour-force exit rates using a variety of labour supply ...
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How many struggle to get by in retirement?
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B.A. Butrica;D. Murphy;S.R. Zedlewski
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Center for Retirement Research, Boston College,
2007
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The dramatic decline in the official poverty rate of adults age 65 and older over the last four decades in the United States leads many to assume that reducing poverty among older adults need not be a...
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State and local pensions are different from private plans
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A.H. Munnell;M. Soto
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Center for Retirement Research, Boston College,
2007
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This brief identifies the key differences between employer-sponsored plans in the private and public sectors, including:...
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Why do Japanese workers remain in the labor force so long?
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J.B. Williamson;M. Higo
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Center for Retirement Research, Boston College,
2007
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As part of the search for answers to questions about what could be done to increase labour force participation rates among older American workers, this paper looks at recent developments in Japan, ...
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Saving and demographic change: the global dimension
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B. Bosworth; G. Chodorow-Reich
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Center for Retirement Research, Boston College,
2007
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Falling long-term interest rates worldwide have led some policy-makers to speculate on the emergence of a glut of global saving. However, why is there a large saving shortfall in the United States, a...
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Long-term immigration projection methods: current practice and how to improve it
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N. Howe; R. Jackson
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Center for Retirement Research, Boston College,
2006
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Assumptions about international migration are an increasingly important component of demographic projections. Yet most official immigration projections both in the United States and abroad rely on ad-...
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Chilean pension reform: the good, the bad, and the in between
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M. Soto
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Center for Retirement Research, Boston College,
2005
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This paper assesses the Chilean pension system nearly 25 years after its transformation from the traditional pay-as-you-go structure to a system based on personal retirement accounts.The author sug...
