Retirement Research Using the Health and Retirement Survey

This paper highlights unanswered research questions in the economics of retirement, and shows how these issues can be addressed using the new Health and Retirement Survey (HRS). Unique features of the survey are described including administrative records on earnings and social security benefits, and employer provided data on pensions and health insurance. Also collected are indicators of retirement plans, health status, family structure, income, wealth and employer policies affecting job opportunities and constraints. Data from the first wave of the HRS are used to analyze retirement outcomes and constraints shaping retirement behavior.

Efeito da distância da fonte de propágulos e aves na utilização de poleiros artificiais pela avifauna em uma matriz de agricultura na região noroeste do Paraná.

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Eficiência de poleiros artificiais na atração de aves em áreas degradadas da floresta estacional semidecidual.

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Uso de poleiros artificiais por aves em áreas degradadas da Floresta Estacional Semidecidual na região Noroeste do Estado do Paraná.

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Pensions and the U.S. Labor Market

Pensions have played a key role in the transformation of the way workers are paid in the US labor market This paper reviews and synthesizes what is known about the form and function of employer-provided pensions, and identifies areas where further information is most needed. for increasing our understanding of behavior and for guiding the pension policies of the next decade. There are a number of studies which explore the tax advantages of pensions. the special value of pension annuities and related insurance, and the value of pensions to the firm in regulating retirement, mobility and productivity. This paper investigates whether available evidence is consistent with behavioral models, highlights remaining questions, and attempts to determine what types of data would be most helpful in furthering our understanding of pension plans in the labor market. Available evidence indicates that pensions must be viewed as part of a long-term employment relation. For this reason, researchers must move beyond descriptive studies toward structural models which permit tests between diverse pension theories. Studies of this kind have heavy data requirements. Specifically, we believe there is a pressing need for a nationally representative survey where the unit of observation is the firm, the establishment, or the pension plan. To understand the pension-wage and the pension-turnover/retirement relationship, more information is required on the processes determining compensation and employment Combining information on employee characteristics, turnover and retirement patterns, company inputs and outputs, and the firm's overall financial characteristics would go a long way toward helping researchers distinguish among the leading explanations for why firms offer pensions. Of even greater utility would be longitudinal data combining company-side information with employment and wage histories of employees.

Social Security Research at the University of Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center

In 1998, the Social Security Administration established the Retirement Research Consortium to encourage research on topics related to Social Security and the well-being of older Americans, and to foster communication between the academic and policy communities. The Michigan Retirement Research Center (MRRC) participated in the Consortium from its inception until 2019, when the MRRC expanded and became the Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center. This article surveys a selection of the MRRC’s output over its second 10 years (2008–2017), summarizes its innovative use of new data sources, and highlights several key themes in the center’s research contributions