The Impact of Late-Career Health and Employment Shocks on Social Security and Other Wealth

Richard Johnson, Gordon B.T. Mermin and Daniel Murphy ()

Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College from Center for Retirement Research

Abstract: Although health and employment shocks are fairly common at older ages and often derail retirement savings plans, Social Security’s disability insurance, spouse and survivor benefits, and progressive benefit formula may provide important protections. By contrast, traditional employer-sponsored pension benefits may be especially vulnerable to health and employment shocks immediately before benefit take-up, because pension wealth generally grows rapidly near the end of the career and workers forfeit these increases if they separate early. This study examines the impact of disability onset and job layoffs on Social Security wealth, traditional employer-sponsored pension wealth, and other household wealth for a nationally representative sample of workers age 51 to 55 in 1992...

Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2007-10, Revised 2007-12
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