The Racial Morbidity Gap: Implications for Raising the Retirement Age
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Keywords
Retirement; 401(k); Pensions; Race; Morbidity;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H55 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Social Security and Public Pensions
- J26 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Retirement; Retirement Policies
- J32 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits; Retirement Plans; Private Pensions
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGE-2016-02-04 (Economics of Ageing)
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