%0 Journal Article %J Soc Secur Bull %D 2005 %T Lifetime earnings, social security benefits, and the adequacy of retirement wealth accumulation. %A Engen, Eric M. %A William G. Gale %A Cori E. Uccello %K Adult %K Humans %K Income %K Middle Aged %K Models, Econometric %K Pensions %K Retirement %K Social Security %K United States %B Soc Secur Bull %I 66 %V 66 %P 38-57 %8 2005 %G eng %U https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v66n1/v66n1p38.html %N 1 %L wp_2004/Engen-etal_2004-10.pdf %1 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16295316?dopt=Abstract %4 Social Security expectations/Retirement Saving %$ 12472 %0 Book Section %B Public Policies and Private Pensions %D 2003 %T What People Don't Know About Their Pensions and Social Security: An Analysis Using Linked Data from the Health and Retirement Study %A Alan L Gustman %A Thomas L. Steinmeier %E William G. Gale %E John B. Shoven %E Mark J. Warshawsky %K Consumption and Savings %K Employment and Labor Force %K Income %K Pensions %K Retirement Planning and Satisfaction %K Social Security %X Pension plan descriptions from respondents to the 1992 Health and Retirement Study are compared with descriptions obtained from their employers. Earnings histories reported by respondents are compared with earnings histories from the Social Security Administration. The probability of linking employer pension data, which is two thirds for current jobs, and of obtaining permission to link an earnings history, which is over 70 percent, are not well explained by respondent characteristics. Half of respondents with linked pension data correctly identify plan type, and fewer than half identify, within one year, dates of eligibility for early and normal retirement benefits. Benefit reduction rates are essentially not reported. Respondents do better in reporting pension values, but the unexplained variation is still considerable. In contrast, respondent reported values together with other observables, account for 80 percent of the variation in pension values and 75 percent of the variation in covered earnings measured from linked records. Thus prospects are good for imputing plan values, but not for imputing the location or size of early retirement incentives. Our findings raise questions about how well respondents understand complex pension and Social Security rules. %B Public Policies and Private Pensions %I Brookings Institution %C Washington, DC %P 57-125 %G eng %U https://www.nber.org/papers/w7368 %4 Personal Income and Wealth Distribution/Social Security and Public Pensions/Economics of the Elderly/Retirement/Retirement Policies/Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits/Private Pensions/Pension/Social Security/Retirement/Income Distribution/Nonwage Benefits %$ 1116 %+ National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 7368. Copies available from: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138. Website: www.nber.org %0 Book Section %B Living With Defined Contribution Pensions %D 1998 %T Effects of Pensions on Household Wealth Accumulation: Implications of the Shift Toward Defined Contribution Plans %A William G. Gale %A Milano, Joseph %E Olivia S. Mitchell %E Scheiber, S. %K Net Worth and Assets %K Pensions %X Pension wealth constitutes a sizable portion of households' retirement resources. Close to half of civilian nonagricultural workers participate in pension plans.' Future income flows from private pensions accounted for 20 percent of the wealth of households aged 65-69 in 1991 (Poterba, Venti, and Wise 1994, table 1). Thus the relation between pensions and other household wealth can have important implications for policy issues, such as how to raise the saving rate or assure adequate saving for retirement, as well as for more fundamental issues, such as how people make economic decisions about the future. %B Living With Defined Contribution Pensions %I Univ. of Pennsylvania Press and Pension Research Council %G eng %U https://pensionresearchcouncil.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/0-8122-3439-1-6.pdf %4 401(k) participation and balances/Wealth Accumulation %$ 8142 %! Effects of Pensions on Household Wealth Accumulation: Implications of the Shift Toward Defined Contribution Plans