What is the average retirement age?

Munnell, Alicia Haydock. “What is the average retirement age?”. Issue in Brief 11-11, Chestnut Hill, Mass.: Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, August 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104192.
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Abstract

The brief's key findings are: (1) Since the mid-1990s, the average retirement age has risen: (1a) from 62 to 64 for men; and (1b) from 60 to 62 for women. (2) This trend toward later retirement has been driven by several factors: (2a) changing incentives in Social Security and employer pensions; (2b) better education and health coupled with less strenuous jobs; and (2c) the decline in retiree health insurance. (3) In addition, more older women are working today because more of them started working when younger. (4) These factors suggest the trend toward later retirement will continue but risks remain, such as the move away from career employment.

Title
What is the average retirement age?
Author
Munnell, Alicia Haydock
School
Carroll School of Management
Discipline
Finance
Center
Center for Retirement Research
Genre
report
Date Issued
August 2011
Publisher
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
Series Title
Issue in Brief
Series Number
11-11
Version Identification
Version of record.
Persistent Link
http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104192
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Subject
Older workers

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