Assessing the Maintenance of Savings Sufficiency Over the First Decade of Retirement

37 Pages Posted: 10 Nov 2005

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Robert Haveman

University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); IZA Institute of Labor Economics; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)

Karen Holden

University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Human Ecology

Barbara Wolfe

University of Wisconsin-Madison; IZA Institute of Labor Economics; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute); RSSS-economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Andrei Romanov

University of Wisconsin - Madison - Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs

Date Written: October 2005

Abstract

The adequacy of retirement savings is central to the U.S. debate over the effects of Social Security reform and pension changes that would place greater responsibility on individuals for accumulation of retirement resources. We contribute to this discussion by examining the extent to which individuals maintain initial levels of resources over the first decade of retirement. We compare annuitized wealth, including Social Security and pension wealth, to two consumption standards - a household's preretirement earnings and the poverty threshold. We analyze the relationship of individual characteristics to changes in this ratio over time, including the effects of widowhood and post-retirement work.

JEL Classification: J14, J26

Suggested Citation

Haveman, Robert H. and Holden, Karen Anderson and Wolfe, Barbara L. and Romanov, Andrei, Assessing the Maintenance of Savings Sufficiency Over the First Decade of Retirement (October 2005). CESifo Working Paper Series No. 1567, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=844666 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.844666

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