Does a uniform retirement age make sense?

Sanzenbacher, Geoffrey T., Anthony Webb, Natalia S. Orlova, and Candace M. Cosgrove. “Does a uniform retirement age make sense?”. Issue in Brief 16-1, Chestnut Hill, Mass.: Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, January 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104824.
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Abstract

The brief's key findings are: (1) Due to rising life expectancies, many policy experts would encourage people to work longer. (2) However, such changes assume all workers, regardless of socioeconomic status (SES), have experienced similar gains in life expectancy. (3) In fact, between 1979 and 2011, the gain for men in the lowest education quartile was one third lower than for men in the highest quartile. (4) If the goal were to keep the same balance of retirement to work years as in 1979, low-SES men could work to 68 today, while high-SES men could work to 69 1/2. (5) Thus, retirement policies that treat all workers the same hurt low-SES workers.

Title
Does a uniform retirement age make sense?
Author
Sanzenbacher, Geoffrey T.
Webb, Anthony
Orlova, Natalia S.
Cosgrove, Candace M.
Center
Center for Retirement Research
Genre
report
Date Issued
January 2016
Publisher
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
Series Title
Issue in Brief
Series Number
16-1
Version Identification
Version of record.
Persistent Link
http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104824
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Subject
Older workers

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