By Jaquiline Amani This qualitative study explored prospective teacher retirees’ perceived fears about retirement and identified key drivers of retirement anxiety. Data were collected through focus group discussions with 22 teachers from two regions of Tanzania. The participants were purposively selected from public schools and had ten years or less remaining before reaching voluntary or […]

By Grant Laschowski & Norm O’Reilly This research aims to investigate the financial well-being (FWB) of retired male athletes in major professional North American team sports. Framed around Kempson’s (2017) FWB Model, the aim of this research is (1) to identify the key drivers that influence how retired athletes feel about their current financial situations […]

By Travis Campbell & Yana Van Der Meulen Rodgers The emerging field of LGBTQ+ economics has convincingly demonstrated that LGBTQ+ individuals face distinct labor market disparities. This chapter provides an overview of their unfavorable labor market outcomes and then focuses on several specific issues for transgender workers. Previous studies show that gender-affirming care can improve […]

A new Congressional Research Service (CRS) report on multiemployer pension plans lands at a tense moment: a $77.9 billion federal rescue program enacted under the Biden administration has stabilized the retirement benefits of 1.8 million workers, but unresolved questions about improper payments, structural vulnerabilities, and the long-term health of hundreds of plans are now up […]

As Ghana continues to debate the future of its pension system, an important question is emerging in public policy discussions: Should every elderly Ghanaian receive a basic state pension, regardless of whether they contributed to a formal pension scheme? The question is both timely and necessary. Across Ghana, thousands of elderly citizens who spent their […]

Retirement wealth differs greatly across European nations, affecting living standards in ways that go beyond what pension income alone can provide, according to the European Central Bank’s Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) released in mid-2023. In certain countries, older households possess more than 30 times the wealth of their counterparts elsewhere, illustrating how housing, pensions, […]

PENSIONS and Insur­ance Author­ity (PIA) regis­trar and chief exec­ut­ive officer Namakau Ntini says strong gov­ernance is the found­a­tion of sus­tain­able pen­sion sys­tems as it pro­motes account­ab­il­ity, trans­par­ency and prudent man­age­ment of retire­ment sav­ings. Mrs Ntini said the pen­sion industry is oper­at­ing in an increas­ingly com­plex envir­on­ment char­ac­ter­ised by eco­nomic uncer­tainty, chan­ging demo­graph­ics, tech­no­lo­gical dis­rup­tion, cli­mate-related […]