Changing Sources of Income Among the Aged Population

Changing Sources of Income Among the Aged Population (Center for Retirement Research at Boston College)

"[T]he large shift over the past two decades in the composition of the income of the aged (65+), increasing the role of earned income and reducing the importance of income from their own assets ... can be attributed to delayed exit from the labor force by workers at older ages. [The authors] attribute the increase in work time to a rise in the proportion of more educated workers who choose to continue working, changes within the pension system that previously encouraged early retirement, and a decline in the availability of retiree health insurance. The increase in work time is concentrated among the highest income groups and those with the most education, suggesting that it is largely voluntary."

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