Special Issue - Race, Gender, and Retirement
Inequalities have taken on renewed urgency in the U.S. Minorities and women have had different employment and earnings patterns, resulting in substantially lower retirement account balances and income replacement rates. Progress has been made in reducing elder poverty, but poverty rates remain elevated among
minorities and surviving spouses.
Examples of topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Are lower retirement plan balances of women and minority households reflective of lower lifetime earnings?
- Are minorities and women at greater risk of being unable to maintain their standard of living in retirement.
- Do minorities and women face greater difficulty in navigating America’s individualized and self-directed retirement system, and if so why?
- To what extent are women disadvantaged in household bargaining, divorce, and widowhood by being typically the lower earner in a household?
- To what extent are black households disadvantaged by current Social Security program design?
- To want extent do physically demanding jobs and higher unemployment rates disadvantage black workers and other minorities from working until customary retirement ages?
- What data and oher limitations do we need to overcome in order to develop a full picture of differences in retirement behavior and adequacy by race, ethnicity, and gender?
- How can we improve our understanding of actual and hypothesized differences in savings, investment, spending, and other retirement-related choices among groups?
HOW CAN I SUBMIT MY RESEARCH?
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SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
31 January 2022
For more information, please contact Co-Editors P. Brett Hammond at brett.hammond@capgroup.com and Tony Webb at tonywebb10014@gmail.com