Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas L. - 2021
longitudinal data on pension and annuity incomes of retirees suggests that pension COLAs are less important in the 1980s than in … sample of pension benefit formulae and COLA provisions collected by the Wyatt Company for the fifty largest industrial … companies indicate that if the 1968-78 decade persisted, cost of living adjustments would increase basic pension benefits for …