This paper looks at one slice of the income pie of the older population: retirement annuities and employment-based defined benefit (DB) pensions. It analyzes the population age 50 and over in order to take into account the prevalence of early retirement options available to individuals beginning...

This paper looks at one slice of the income pie of the older population: retirement annuities and employment-based pensions. It analyzes the population age 50 and over in order to take into account the prevalence of early retirement options available to individuals beginning at age 50. Recent...

This paper looks at one slice of the income pie of the older population: retirement annuities and employment-based pensions. It analyzes the population of those age 50 and over in order to take into account the prevalence of early retirement options available to individuals beginning at age 50....

The performance of the U.S. retirement income system - including employment-based retirement plans, Social Security, individual saving, and post-retirement employment - can in part be assessed by examining the income of current retirees. This paper reviews the latest available data from the U.S....

Several demographic variables are correlated with a worker's likelihood of receiving a retirement annuity and/or employment-based pension payment in retirement. These variables are also correlated with the amount of pension income a worker receives from these plans. For example, in 1998, 31.7...

Data from the March 2000 Current Population Survey show that gender, marital status, age, education, and income have a significant impact on the likelihood of an individual receiving a retirement annuity and/or employment-based pension payment in retirement

This paper looks at one slice of the income pie of the older population: retirement annuities and employment-based pensions. It analyzes the population age 50 and over in order to take into account the prevalence of early retirement options available to individuals beginning at age 50. Recent...

This paper looks at one slice of the income pie of the older population: retirement annuities and employment-based pensions. It analyzes the population ages 50 and over in order to take into account the prevalence of early retirement options available to individuals beginning at age 50. Recent...

Recent data from the March 2003 Current Population Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau confirm earlier findings that gender, marital status, age, education, and other demographic variables have a significant impact on the likelihood of a worker receiving a retirement annuity and/or...

The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit public policy research organization based in Washington, DC, that has been researching economic security issues for almost 25 years. This EBRI Issue Brief synthesizes highlights of recent EBRI research on retirement...