Munnell, Alicia Haydock. “The average retirement age”. Issue in Brief 15-4, Chestnut Hill, Mass.: Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, March 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:103786.
Abstract
The brief's key findings are: (1) Labor force activity among older Americans began rising in the mid-1980s due to: changing Social Security incentives; the shift to 401(k) plans; and improving health, longevity, and education. (2) Updated data, however, suggest that these factors may have played themselves out.(3) As a result, the average retirement age has increased only slightly in the last 10 years: to 64 for men and 62 for women.