This article reviews the latest available data on the older population's income and how it has changed over time, as well as how the elderly's reliance on these sources varies across income levels. The median income level of the elderly population was $13,561 in 2000, up from $12,519 in 1992 (in...

This paper examines the income of the elderly population in the United States by reviewing data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey. The PDF for the above title, published in the June 2003 issue of EBRI Notes, also contains the fulltext of another June 2003 EBRI Notes article...

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...

This Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) report synthesizes highlights of recent EBRI research on health issues. Health data in this document include: national health expenditures, employment-based health benefits, the uninsured, managed care, consumer-driven health benefits, Medicare and...

This article examines some of the causes of the differences in total compensation costs for private-sector employers and state and local government employers. The datasets used are from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and from EBRI tabulations of the March 2001 Current Population Survey

The U.S. retirement income system - including employment-based retirement plans, Social Security, individual savings, and post-retirement employment - can be assessed in part by examining the income of the current elderly population (age 65 and older). This paper reviews the latest available...

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...

This paper examines some of the causes of the differences in total compensation costs between state and local government employers and private-sector employers using datasets from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and from EBRI tabulations of the March 2004 Current Population Survey by the U.S....

This paper reports recent data from the March 2004 Current Population Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau confirming 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...

This paper reviews the latest available data on the older population's income (from the U.S. Census Bureau's March 2004 Current Population survey) and how it has changed over time, as well as how the elderly's reliance on these sources varies across income levels. The PDF for the above title,...