highlights of recent EBRI research on retirement benefits. Retirement data in this document include: Basics of employment …-based benefits; Assets in retirement plans; Participants in retirement plans; 401(k) plan trends; Individual retirement accounts …; Social Security; Lump-sum distributions; Public opinion on retirement; and, Small employers and retirement plans …

This paper discusses the likelihood of a family head's participation in a retirement plan as it relates to plan type …

-based retirement plan, and to know the characteristics of workers with and without a plan - the subject of this paper. The findings … (typically a 401(k)-type plan). In 2007, 18.1 percent of family heads who participated in an employment-based retirement plan had … significant impact on the funds available for these participants in retirement. The EBRI-ERF Retirement Security Projection Model …

To establish current savings behavior, one necessary measurement of retirement preparation is identifying the … percentage of workers with employment-based retirement plans, as well as understanding the characteristics of workers with and … working family head participating in a retirement plan increased with the size of his or her employer. In 2010, among family …

-based retirement plan. It is the third in a series of EBRI publications based on the Retirement and Pension Plan Coverage Topical …This paper focuses on a critical factor in retirement security: the presence of income or assets from an employment … concerning workers' participation in employment-based and other retirement plans …

This article focuses on employment-based retirement plan participation for full-time, full-year wage and salary workers … and by employers and unions. The retirement plan total participation rates of these workers are investigated across … various worker demographic and employer characteristics. The article provides the latest retirement plan participation numbers …

-based pension plans. The percentage of workers ages 21-64 participating in a plan was found to be 54.8 percent in 2001, up from 51 … participating in a pension plan. In particular, male, white, older, full-time, and public sector workers were more likely to have …