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 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,...

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...