TY - JOUR T1 - The Impact of a Randomly Assigned Time and Place Management Initiative on Work and Retirement Expectations JF - Work Aging and Retirement Y1 - 2015 A1 - Kevin E. Cahill A1 - Jacquelyn Boone James A1 - Pitt-Catsouphes, Marcie KW - Employment and Labor Force KW - Retirement Planning and Satisfaction AB - This article examines the causal relationship between a workplace flexibility arrangement and retirement expectations. The data come from a unique large-scale randomly assigned time and place management (TPM) initiative that recently took place at a regional healthcare system in the United States with more than 9,000 employees. A difference-in-differences approach was used to assess treatment impacts among older full-time career employees and comparisons were made with a nationally representative group of older Americans from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We found evidence that the TPM initiative had a statistically significant impact on employees' retirement expectations; employees in the treatment group were more likely than those in the control group to expect to remain with the organization until retirement, though treatment impacts dissipated somewhat toward the end of the study. The results indicate that workplace flexibility could be one solution to promote continued work later in life, as flexible work arrangements have the potential to impact retirement expectations and patterns of labor force withdrawal. PB - 1 VL - 1 IS - 4 N1 - Times Cited: 0 0 U4 - workplace/time and place management/labor Force Participation/retirement planning ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Should We Raise Social Security's Earliest Eligibility Age? Y1 - 2004 A1 - Alicia H. Munnell A1 - Meme, Kevin B. A1 - Natalia A. Jivan A1 - Kevin E. Cahill KW - Social Security AB - Social Security’s Earliest Eligibility Age (EEA) allows one to claim reduced benefits as early as age 62. For full benefits, individuals must wait until the Normal Retirement Age (NRA), which was traditionally 65 but is gradually increasing to 67. So, Americans have a choice to make when they reach their early 60s: claim a reduced Social Security benefit right away or delay until some further date and receive a larger benefit. The reduction for claiming benefits early is designed to be actuarially fair, i.e. monthly benefits are lowered by an amount that offsets the longer period for which they will be received. The total amount that the average person can expect to receive over his or her lifetime thus does not depend on when benefits are claimed… JF - Center for Retirement Research at Boston College Briefs PB - Center for Retirement Research at Boston College CY - Boston UR - https://crr.bc.edu/briefs/should-we-raise-social-securitys-earliest-eligibility-age/ U4 - Social Security ER - TY - RPRT T1 - How Has the Shift to 401(k)s Affected the Retirement Age? Y1 - 2003 A1 - Alicia H. Munnell A1 - Kevin E. Cahill A1 - Natalia A. Jivan KW - Pensions KW - Retirement Planning and Satisfaction PB - Boston College, Center for Retirement Research UR - http://www.bc.edu/centers/crr/ U4 - Retirement Behavior/defined contribution pension plans ER -