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...

This article reviews 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. In 2002, the median income of the elderly was $13,994, down from $14,105 in 1998. Social Security accounted for 42.5...

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...

According to a recent survey, employers' direct costs for disability coverage (defined as payments or premiums for workers' compensation, sick pay, and short-term and long-term disability plans) were 6.3 percent of payroll in 1999. Indirect costs of disability (defined as costs for overtime,...

Recent data from the March 2001 Current Population Survey confirm earlier findings that gender, marital status, age, and other demographic variables have a significant impact on the likelihood of a worker receiving a retirement annuity and/or employment-based pension plan payment in retirement....

This paper provides data on the relationships found in the March 2002 Current Population Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau that confirm earlier findings that gender, marital status, age, education, and other demographic variables have a significant impact on the likelihood of a worker...

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