This paper closely examines the level of participation by workers in public- and private-sector employment-based pension or retirement plans, based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s March 2009 Current Population Survey (CPS), the most recent data currently available. About 56 percent of all...

When predicting the future income security of retirees, researchers typically focus on measures concerned with retirees’ accumulated financial assets, particularly within tax-qualified retirement plans (e.g., 401(k) plans and individual retirement accounts (IRAs)), and coverage by supplemental...

Social Security (technically called the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program, or OASDI) is currently facing a long-term projected financial shortfall, due in large part to the changing demographics and aging of the U.S. population, and it has been in this position for a number of...

This paper assesses the current status of Americans’ savings for retirement by examining the incidence of individual account plans among families, as well as the average amount of assets accumulated in these accounts. The 2007 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), the Federal Reserve Board’s...

This paper closely examines the level of participation by workers in public- and private-sector employment-based pension or retirement plans, based on the U.S. Census Bureau's March 2008 Current Population Survey (CPS), the most recent data currently available. Among full-time, full-year wage...

This paper examines the level of participation by workers in public- and private-sector employment-based pension or retirement plans, based on the U.S. Census Bureau's March 2007 Current Population Survey (CPS), the most recent data currently available. It begins with an overview of retirement...

An increasing percentage of older Americans are in the labor force: The percentage of those ages 55 or older in the labor force increased from 37.7 percent in 1993 to 44.9 percent in 2006. For those ages 65-69, the percentage increased from 18.4 percent in 1985 to 29.0 percent in 2006. This...

This paper updates previous Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) publications that have examined employee-tenure data of American workers. The latest data on employee tenure from the January 2012 Supplement to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS) are examined and...

This paper examines the level of participation by workers in public- and private-sector, employment-based pension or retirement plans, based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s March 2012 Current Population Survey (CPS), the most recent data currently available. It begins with an overview of...

This paper examines recent U.S. Census Bureau data on labor-force participation among Americans age 55 and older, including what happened to the trends after the economic recession that started in late 2007-early 2008. The first section uses annualized data on labor-force participation from the...