Description: Symposium session on Emerging Definitions of Retirement.

Description: This paper will focus on default distributions and why they are important.

Description: This paper recommends changes to current laws affecting employee benefits, changes that would provide substantial retirement security for these and other contingent workers in Mulitempoyer plans.

Description: This article is a summary of the authors’ two other articles where they discuss pension systems and whether they do in fact distort retirement decisions.

Description: This paper develops a set of retirement decision propositions, which hypothesize that the heuristic of Anchoring and the resulting cognitive biases described by Prospect Theory will influence the chosen retirement age. .

Description: This paper suggests a number of legislative changes, educational efforts, and changes in annuity products and asset allocation software that could assist workers and retirees to better prepare for and respond to declining mortality rates and future increases in income needs. From Retirement Needs Framework, M-RS00-1.

Description: This paper proposes a mandatory universal pension system MUPS which would be a system of fully portable IRA accounts piggy-backed on to existing Social Security withholding.

Description: This is a web page containing links to papers presented at the Retirement 20/20 conference held in Washington, D.C. on November 17 & 18, 2008.

Description: This paper talks about the risks of defined benefit and defined contribution plans.

Description: This paper examines the current presence of more females in the work force, and the Social Security/retirement issues that are raised by this trend. From Retirement Implications of Demographic and Family Change Symposium Monograph, M-RS02-2.