Retirement, Pensions, and Social Security

by Gary S. Fields and Olivia S. Mitchell

This book places retirement in an economic context, calculating the income opportunities facing older workers at alternate retirement ages, and estimating how responsive retirement ages are to changes in income opportunities. American workers are retiring earlier, living longer, and receiving greater retirement benefits for each year out of the labor force than ever before, which has created serious financial pressures on the nation's Social Security...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026252497X
• ISBN13: 9780262524971
• Release Date: December 1984
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher